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.
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.
Locations
People
- Benjamin Franklin
- Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes
- Henry Laurens
- John Adams
- John Jay
- William Petty, Earl of Shelburne
Groups
- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
- Ohio Country
- Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- Loyalists (American Revolution)
- United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)
Topics
- American Revolution
- American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence
- Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
- Anglo-Spanish War
- Gibraltar, Great Siege of
- Anglo-Dutch War, Fourth
