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 118
... turn over information of real value . Let us keep this to ourselves , Vergennes cautioned his envoy to Spain . If the man turns out to be a fraud , we should appear ridiculous were it to get around that we have swallowed his bait.19 ...
... turn over information of real value . Let us keep this to ourselves , Vergennes cautioned his envoy to Spain . If the man turns out to be a fraud , we should appear ridiculous were it to get around that we have swallowed his bait.19 ...
Page 349
... turn to seafaring . What will keep those who speak our tongue from passing " for English " and being engaged on our own frigates and privateers ? The same thought would occur time and again to captains of royal frigates who were to im ...
... turn to seafaring . What will keep those who speak our tongue from passing " for English " and being engaged on our own frigates and privateers ? The same thought would occur time and again to captains of royal frigates who were to im ...
Page 371
... turn the matter over to a special commission . As regards the Loyalists , while Rayneval was in- structed to point out the impossibility of reintegrating them in American life and of the adequacy of Britain's resources to compensate ...
... turn the matter over to a special commission . As regards the Loyalists , while Rayneval was in- structed to point out the impossibility of reintegrating them in American life and of the adequacy of Britain's resources to compensate ...
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