The Diplomacy of the American Revolution
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The Diplomacy of the American Revolution

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The Diplomacy of the American Revolution

About this book

"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for the creation of new ones. Nevertheless it was this bitter cut-throat international rivalry which was to make American independence possible."


On April 15th, 1783, the Articles of Peace between the United States and Great Britain went into effect proclaiming that "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the United States…to be free Sovereign and independent States." That recognition, the origins of which began almost seven years earlier in Philadelphia, the fate of which was uncertain at Valley Forge and ultimately vindicated at Yorktown, represented a monumental achievement for the new American nation. It also, as Samuel Flagg Bemis shows us, marked the end of a world war.

This book explains the ambitions and interests of European powers during the American Revolution. France's search for revenge against Britain after the French and Indian War, Spain's attempt to retake Gibraltar, the complicated trade interests of the Netherlands and Russia, Austria's fears of a two-front war – each of these saw America's struggle for independence as an event that affected their own strategies. And, as Bemis shows us, it is through that prism that we should consider the actions of those who supported America and Great Britain.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction to the Current Edition
  7. Preface to the First Edition (1935)
  8. Preface to the Second Printing (1937)
  9. Foreword to the Second Edition (1957)
  10. I. Introduction
  11. II. France’s Opportunity
  12. III. The First Foreign Mission of the United States
  13. IV. France and Spain in 1777
  14. V. The Franco-American Alliance
  15. VI. Austria and Spain in 1778
  16. VII. The Franco-Spanish Alliance
  17. VIII. Spain’s American Policy
  18. IX. The Perilous Neutrality of the Netherlands
  19. X. The Netherlands and Neutral Rights
  20. XI. The Armed Neutrality of 1780 and the Involvement of the Netherlands in the War
  21. XII. The United States and the Armed Neutrality
  22. XIII. The Imperial Mediators and France in 1781
  23. XIV. The Beginning of Peace Discussions
  24. XV. “Necessary” vs. “Desirable” Articles of Peace
  25. XVI. “The Point of Independence”
  26. XVII. The Preliminary Articles of November 30, 1782
  27. XVIII. The Peace Settlement of 1783
  28. Text of the Preliminary and Conditional Articles of Peace
  29. Bibliographical Note
  30. Index