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 302
... remarked of Jay in reporting this interview , " though he never has been in England , he may be supposed ( by anything I could perceive ) as much alienated from any particular regard for England as if he had never heard of it in his ...
... remarked of Jay in reporting this interview , " though he never has been in England , he may be supposed ( by anything I could perceive ) as much alienated from any particular regard for England as if he had never heard of it in his ...
Page 372
... remarked laconically , " The Tories stick . " 134 Fresh from briefings by the Ministry , Strachey pointed out the revisions in Jay's draft upon which his government was insistent . The " grand point , " he remarked , was the restoration ...
... remarked laconically , " The Tories stick . " 134 Fresh from briefings by the Ministry , Strachey pointed out the revisions in Jay's draft upon which his government was insistent . The " grand point , " he remarked , was the restoration ...
Page 450
... remarked humorously of his countrymen , " and seem resolved now to pick my bones . " 45 At the age of eighty - two he took his seat in the Constitutional Convention . Fittingly , his last public act was to affix his signature to a ...
... remarked humorously of his countrymen , " and seem resolved now to pick my bones . " 45 At the age of eighty - two he took his seat in the Constitutional Convention . Fittingly , his last public act was to affix his signature to a ...
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