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 406
... signed . Do not yield Pensacola and Mobile to obtain Gibraltar while there is still a chance to capture the fortress , Aranda was told . Privately Floridablanca seemed ready , after perhaps a two - year truce , to start the war all over ...
... signed . Do not yield Pensacola and Mobile to obtain Gibraltar while there is still a chance to capture the fortress , Aranda was told . Privately Floridablanca seemed ready , after perhaps a two - year truce , to start the war all over ...
Page 417
... signed at the same time as the definitive treaty , but Oswald , appreciating Shelburne's increasingly delicate situation at home , put a stop to what he privately characterized as " this premature and destructive idea . " Jay sub ...
... signed at the same time as the definitive treaty , but Oswald , appreciating Shelburne's increasingly delicate situation at home , put a stop to what he privately characterized as " this premature and destructive idea . " Jay sub ...
Page 436
... signed the preliminaries with the Dutch , who begged off signing definitively.144 On the very evening of the signing of the definitive treaties a company of Americans , including Matthew Ridley and Thomas Barclay , a Phil- adelphia ...
... signed the preliminaries with the Dutch , who begged off signing definitively.144 On the very evening of the signing of the definitive treaties a company of Americans , including Matthew Ridley and Thomas Barclay , a Phil- adelphia ...
Contents
THREE VOYAGERS IN SEARCH OF PEACE I | 1 |
ARMADA AGAINST ENGLAND | 27 |
PRIEST AND PLAYWRIGHT AT THE PARDO | 43 |
Copyright | |
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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