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 242
... offer as well as an alliance , then the United States would cease to consider themselves bound by the offer.82 Jay's was indeed a generous offer . The issues of the Mississippi and the boundary of West Florida , which were to plague ...
... offer as well as an alliance , then the United States would cease to consider themselves bound by the offer.82 Jay's was indeed a generous offer . The issues of the Mississippi and the boundary of West Florida , which were to plague ...
Page 243
... offer them shall have ceased . " As such conduct would be " unjust " as well as unfair , Jay was confident that Congress would endorse the limitation he had placed upon the offer . Congress , which soon had second thoughts about its ...
... offer them shall have ceased . " As such conduct would be " unjust " as well as unfair , Jay was confident that Congress would endorse the limitation he had placed upon the offer . Congress , which soon had second thoughts about its ...
Page 403
... Offer her the two Floridas and Minorca in return , provided that France added Dominica to the territories she was returning . The King , on the other hand , was quite prepared , as Shelburne put it , " to get back as honourably as we ...
... Offer her the two Floridas and Minorca in return , provided that France added Dominica to the territories she was returning . The King , on the other hand , was quite prepared , as Shelburne put it , " to get back as honourably as we ...
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