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 335
... draft of the alteration you propose . " Jay did so at once , and Oswald forwarded the draft of the new com- mission to the Home Office . Jay's alteration would have empowered the Scot " to treat of Peace or Truce with the Commissioners ...
... draft of the alteration you propose . " Jay did so at once , and Oswald forwarded the draft of the new com- mission to the Home Office . Jay's alteration would have empowered the Scot " to treat of Peace or Truce with the Commissioners ...
Page 346
... draft in his own handwriting which he submitted to Oswald on October 5th on behalf of Franklin and himself . Except for a minor reservation included as an alteration to one article , the British commissioner found the draft entirely ...
... draft in his own handwriting which he submitted to Oswald on October 5th on behalf of Franklin and himself . Except for a minor reservation included as an alteration to one article , the British commissioner found the draft entirely ...
Page 348
... draft , Oswald hoped that his work was over . He rushed off stout arguments that Jay's draft be finalized and the approval be given " quickly . " Oswald knew that the draft he dispatched to England on October 8th , by omitting mention ...
... draft , Oswald hoped that his work was over . He rushed off stout arguments that Jay's draft be finalized and the approval be given " quickly . " Oswald knew that the draft he dispatched to England on October 8th , by omitting mention ...
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