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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... fisheries provided that the Allies were so circumstanced as to be able to back the United States in continuing the war to obtain this concession . In no event , however , were the fishery rights to be abandoned in any treaty of peace.68 ...
... fisheries provided that the Allies were so circumstanced as to be able to back the United States in continuing the war to obtain this concession . In no event , however , were the fishery rights to be abandoned in any treaty of peace.68 ...
Page 326
... fisheries . " Nothing could be farther from the wishes of this Court , " Rayneval replied , " than that such a claim should be admitted . " He added gratuitously , " You , too , in your hearts , are not only bound in interest to reject ...
... fisheries . " Nothing could be farther from the wishes of this Court , " Rayneval replied , " than that such a claim should be admitted . " He added gratuitously , " You , too , in your hearts , are not only bound in interest to reject ...
Page 330
... fisheries in the high seas are res nullius , while the fisheries on the coast belong by right to the proprietor of the coast , except where modified by agreement . " Having blasted America's claims to shore rights for drying fish as ...
... fisheries in the high seas are res nullius , while the fisheries on the coast belong by right to the proprietor of the coast , except where modified by agreement . " Having blasted America's claims to shore rights for drying fish 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