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American Revolution Podcast

ARP317 Peace Commissioners

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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After the fall of Lord North's Government in Britain in early 1782, the new government under Lord Rockingham reaches out to Benjamin Franklin in Paris to discuss terms for a final peace. This began a protracted negotiation on the final terms of a treaty. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: A Diplomatic History of American Revolution, by Jonathan Dull. Online Recommendation of the Week: The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, by Samuel Bemis: https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.214430 Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.8

This week episode 317 Peace Commissioners. Ever since the French and American victory at Yorktown in

0:56.7

October of 1781, all sides seem to be moving toward a conclusion of the war.

1:02.7

The negotiations of the terms of that ending the war dragged on for years.

1:08.0

Back in episode 309, we covered the fall of the North government and the establishment of a new government under Lord

1:14.9

Rockingham that was ready to recognize American independence.

1:19.4

Of course, things are never that simple.

1:21.8

Shortly after Rockingham became Prime Minister in early 1782,

1:26.3

an influenza epidemic spread through London, Rockingham became ill and died on July 1st. Before his death,

1:34.9

Rockingham had put together a coalition of opposition groups

1:38.6

to replace the North government. His death led to a schism of that coalition, but before we get to that, let's look at what rocking him set up.

1:47.0

He had appointed two secretaries of state.

1:49.0

One was William Petty, better known as the Earl of Shelburne.

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