The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American IndependenceHarper & Row, 1965 - Definitive Treaty of Peace Between Great Britain and the United States - 572 pages A story of espionage, intrigue, chicanery, and cynical self-interest, a diplomatic history. |
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... considered a victory for the pro - French party . " The choice of Jay leaves nothing to be desired , " he wrote to Vergennes . “ To much intelligence and the best intentions he joins an amiable and con- ciliatory temper . " 33 If by ...
... considered a victory for the pro - French party . " The choice of Jay leaves nothing to be desired , " he wrote to Vergennes . “ To much intelligence and the best intentions he joins an amiable and con- ciliatory temper . " 33 If by ...
Page 308
... considered the Americans to be extravagant in their boundary claims , not only because of their insistence on the Mississippi as the western boundary , but also for their venturing to assert title to the Northwest Territory , which ...
... considered the Americans to be extravagant in their boundary claims , not only because of their insistence on the Mississippi as the western boundary , but also for their venturing to assert title to the Northwest Territory , which ...
Page 353
... considered " a great object " ? 45 West Florida took on for a time even larger importance when , a few days later , a substantial group of merchants and planters argued the importance of its recovery , both for strategic reasons and as ...
... considered " a great object " ? 45 West Florida took on for a time even larger importance when , a few days later , a substantial group of merchants and planters argued the importance of its recovery , both for strategic reasons and as ...
Contents
THREE VOYAGERS IN SEARCH OF PEACE I | 1 |
ARMADA AGAINST ENGLAND | 27 |
PRIEST AND PLAYWRIGHT AT THE PARDO | 43 |
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Abbé Morellet alliance ally ambassador American commissioners American independence April Aranda Baudouin Boston Patriot Breteuil Britain British Cabinet Charles James Fox colonies Comte de Vergennes Conde considered court CP Aut Cumberland Diary diplomatic dispatch draft Dutch England envoy fisheries Florida Floridablanca Foreign Minister France France's Franklin French George George III Gérard Gibraltar Grenville Henry Laurens Hussey Ibid insisted instructions Jay's John Adams John Jay July June Kaunitz King La Luzerne Laurens letter Letterbook Livingston London Lord Loyalists Luzerne Madrid Maurepas mediation Ministry mission Mississippi Montbarrey Montmorin Mountstuart Necker negotiations North North Ministry Oswald Papers Paris Parliament peace peacemaking preliminaries President of Congress proposed Rayneval reported Richard Oswald Rockingham Russia secret Secretary Sept Shelburne Shelburne's Spain Spaniards Spanish Strachey Thurne treaty truce United Vaughan Vérac Versailles Walpole