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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... mission originated in Hussey's fertile brain , 33 the energetic Irishman was ready and eager to go . Cumberland extracted a promise from the priest not to return with a demand from Spain for the cession of Gibraltar without an offer of ...
... mission originated in Hussey's fertile brain , 33 the energetic Irishman was ready and eager to go . Cumberland extracted a promise from the priest not to return with a demand from Spain for the cession of Gibraltar without an offer of ...
Page 269
... mission , Shelburne dispatched his private secretary , Maurice Morgann , to join Carleton in New York.97 96 The new mission to America was an egregious blunder . Morgann started out with high optimism , buoyed up by the rosy - tinted ...
... mission , Shelburne dispatched his private secretary , Maurice Morgann , to join Carleton in New York.97 96 The new mission to America was an egregious blunder . Morgann started out with high optimism , buoyed up by the rosy - tinted ...
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... mission to Eng- land , 323 , 334 , 337 , 369-372 , 374 , 382- 383 , 387-390 ; discusses U.S. , 328-331 ; French boundary proposal , 354 , 358 , 371 , 396 ; on Loyalists , 371 ; Jay on first mission , 346 ; second mission to England ...
... mission to Eng- land , 323 , 334 , 337 , 369-372 , 374 , 382- 383 , 387-390 ; discusses U.S. , 328-331 ; French boundary proposal , 354 , 358 , 371 , 396 ; on Loyalists , 371 ; Jay on first mission , 346 ; second mission to England ...
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