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

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

treaty that would end the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin called on John Adams from the Netherlands,

John Jay from Spain, and Henry Lawrence from Britain

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

international diplomacy. Franklin arguably had some experience from

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

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

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

The American diplomatic experience had been troubled from the beginning.

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

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

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

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