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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Page 274
... continued to tell Oswald and Grenville that the United States would not make a separate peace , while at the same time he kept throwing out broad hints that , should independence be granted , the influence of the United States might be ...
... continued to tell Oswald and Grenville that the United States would not make a separate peace , while at the same time he kept throwing out broad hints that , should independence be granted , the influence of the United States might be ...
Page 298
... continued to cause his family acute embarrassment . Although he had been knighted for his efforts to obtain funds in England for King's College of New York , he then with- held the funds , and the College had to go into chancery before ...
... continued to cause his family acute embarrassment . Although he had been knighted for his efforts to obtain funds in England for King's College of New York , he then with- held the funds , and the College had to go into chancery before ...
Page 357
... continued through dinner . Oswald was accompanied by his fellow Scotsman and secretary , Caleb Whitefoord , wit , littérateur , and connoisseur of the arts , who years before had been Franklin's next- door neighbor in London . Strachey ...
... continued through dinner . Oswald was accompanied by his fellow Scotsman and secretary , Caleb Whitefoord , wit , littérateur , and connoisseur of the arts , who years before had been Franklin's next- door neighbor in London . Strachey ...
Contents
THREE VOYAGERS IN SEARCH OF PEACE I | 1 |
ARMADA AGAINST ENGLAND | 27 |
PRIEST AND PLAYWRIGHT AT THE PARDO | 43 |
Copyright | |
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