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American Revolution Podcast

ARP318 Peace Negotiations

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

During the Summer of 1782, Both the British and American Delegations fight amongst themselves trying to decide what peace should look like. Arthur Lee tries to recall the American Peace Delegation. Charles James Fox undercuts the British government's efforts to negotiate. John Jay throws Franklin's plans into disarray. 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: The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard Morris Online Recommendation of the Week: The Peace Negotiations of 1782 and 1783. An address delivered before the New York Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/peacenegotiation00jayj 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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Cheers and have a safe tomorrow. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

0:49.2

This week episode 318 peace negotiations. Last week we, peace negotiations.

0:53.7

Last week we covered the negotiators who assembled in early 1782 to begin negotiating a peace

1:00.0

treaty that would end the Revolutionary War.

1:03.0

Benjamin Franklin called on John Adams from the Netherlands,

1:07.0

John Jay from Spain, and Henry Lawrence from Britain

1:10.0

to join him in France for those negotiations. The Americans were relatively new at

1:16.4

international diplomacy. Franklin arguably had some experience from

1:20.8

serving as a colonial representative in Britain for many years before the war.

1:25.0

The others had served in Congress where there was arguably diplomacy between the British colonies or states,

1:31.0

but nothing like the international stage that they faced in 1782.

1:36.3

The American diplomatic experience had been troubled from the beginning.

1:40.5

Initially, back in 1776, Congress had sent Silas Dean to France to seek financial assistance from King Louis.

1:48.5

Dean had incredible success, not because of any diplomatic skill, but because the French Minister Vergen saw a benefit to providing the British colonies with

1:58.7

covert aid and used Dean as a conduit to get those supplies to the American.

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