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The War of American Independence
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Diplomacy
Abarca, Ramon E. "Classical Diplomacy and Bourbon 'Revanche' Strategy, 1763-1770." Review of Politics, 32 (July 1970), pp. 313-337.
Alsop, Susan Mary. Yankees at Court: The First Americans in Paris. Garden City: Doubleday, 1982.
Auger, Helen. The Secret War of Independence. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pierce, 1955.
Barton, H. A. "Sweden and the War of American Independence." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 23 (July 1966), pp. 408-430.
Bates, Helen B. "Two Bourbon Ministers and Arthur Lee." Hispanic American Historical Review, 13 (November 1933), pp. 489-492.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.
Bou, Pedro Voltes. "La Tentativa de Mediacíon de España en la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos." Revista de Indias, 27 (July-December 1967), pp. 313-334.
Brown, Margaret L. "William Bingham, Agent of the Continental Congress in Martinique." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 61 (January 1937), pp. 54-87.
Clark, George L. Silas Deane, a Connecticut Leader in the American Revolution. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.
Coe, Samuel Gwynn. The Mission of William Carmichael to Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1928.
Corwin, Edward. French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916.
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Crout, Robert Rhodes. "Pierre-Emmanuel de la Plaigne and Georgia's Quest for French Aid During the War of
Independence." Georgia Historical Quarterly, 60 (Summer 1976), pp. 176-184.
Deane, Silas. "The Deane Papers, 1774-1790." Edited by Charles Isham. 5 vols. New-York Historical Society Collections for 1887-1890.
----. "Correspondence of Silas Deane, delegate to the first and second Congress at Philadelphia." Connecticut Historical Society Collections, 2 (1870), pp. 127-368.
----. "The Deane Papers; correspondence between Silas Deane, his brother, and their business and political associates, 1771-1795." Connecticut Historical Society Collections, 23 (1930), pp. 1-277.
Downing, Margaret B. "Oliver Pollock, Patriot and Financier." Illinois Catholic Historical Review, 2 (October 1919), pp. 196-207.
Dull, Jonathan Romer. The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
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Goold, William. "The French Treaty of 1778, Recognizing the Independence of the United States. How the Good News Came to Falmouth." Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, 2d Ser., 1 (1890), pp. 29-43.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, editors. Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
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Hunningher, Benjamin. "Dutch-American Relations During the Revolution." New-York Historical Society Quarterly, 37 (April 1953), pp. 170-184.
Hutson, James H. John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980.
Irvine, Dallas D. "The Newfoundland Fishery: A French Objective in the War of American Independence." Canadian Historical Quarterly, 13 (September 1932), pp. 268-284.
Izard, Ralph. "Izard-Laurens Correspondence." [Edited by Mabel L. Webber.] South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 22 (January, April, July 1921), pp. 1-11, 39-52, 73-88.
James, Coy Hilton. Silas Deane, Patriot or Traitor? [East Lansing]: Michigan State University Press, 1975.
James, James Alton. "Oliver Pollock, Financier of the Revolution in the West." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 16 (June 1929), pp. 67-80.
-----. "Oliver Pollock and the Free Navigation of the Mississippi River." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 19 (December 1932), pp. 331-347.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. "Toward Isolationism: the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Franco-American Alliance of 1778." Historical Reflections, 3 (Summer 1976), pp. 69-81.
Kite, Elizabeth. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence. 2 vols. Boston: R. G. Badger, 1918.
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Lafon, Roger. Beaumarchais, le brillant armateur. Paris: Societe d'editions geographiques, maritimes, et coloniales, 1928.
Lee, William. Letters of William Lee, sheriff and alderman of London; commercial agent of the Continental Congress in France; and minister to the courts of Vienna and Berlin, 1766-1783. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 3 vols. Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891.
Libiszowska, Zafia. "Polish Opinion of the American Revolution." Polish American Studies, 34 (Spring 1977), pp. 5-15.
Madriaga, Isabel de. Britain, Russia, and the Armed Neutrality of 1780. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
Martin, Gaston. "Commercial Relations Between Nantes and the American Colonies." Journal of Economic and Business History, 4 (August 1932), pp. 812-829.
Meng, John J. The Comte de Vergennes; European Phases of His American Diplomacy (1774-1780). Washington: Catholic University of America, 1932.
-----, editor. Dispatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gerard, 1778-1780: Correspondence of the First French Minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1939.
Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
-----. "The Great Peace of 1783." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 95 (1983), pp. 29-51.
Murphy, Orville T. Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.
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Nordholt, Jan Willem Schulte. The Dutch Republic and American Independence. Translated by Herbert H. Rowen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
-----. "The Recognition of the United States by the Dutch Republic." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 94 (1982), pp. 37-48.
Nunemaker, J. Horace. "Louisiana Anticipates Spain's Recognition of the Independence of the United States." Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 26 (July 1943), pp. 755-769.
Osinga, Jacob. "France, Vergennes and the American Independence, 1776-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, Leyden University, 1980.
Patterson, David S. "The Department of State: The Formative Years 1775-1800." Prologue, 21 (Winter 1989), pp. 315-329.
Renaut, Francis Paul. Les Provinces-Unies et la Guerre d'Amérique, 1774-84. 3 vols. Paris: Editions de Granaouli, 1924-1932.
-----. La politique de propagande des Américains durant la guerre d'indépendance (1776-1783). 2 vols. Paris: Granaouli, 1922.
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Singh, Roopnarine John. "French Foreign Policy 1763-1778, With Special Reference to the Caribbean." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1972.
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