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John Jay promptly tells the British that …

Years: 1782 - 1782
November
John Jay promptly tells the British that he is willing to negotiate directly with them, cutting off France and Spain.

The British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne agrees.

He is in full charge of the British negotiations (some of which take place in his study at Lansdowne House, today a bar in the Lansdowne Club) and he now sees a chance to split the United States away from France and make the new country a valuable economic partner.