A new chapter in John Adams's diplomatic career opened when the
Dutch recognized the United States in April 1782. Operating from
the recently purchased American legation at The Hague, Adams
focused his energies on raising a much needed loan from Dutch
bankers and negotiating a Dutch-American commercial treaty. This
volume chronicles Adams's efforts to achieve these objectives, but
it also provides an unparalleled view of eighteenth-century
American diplomacy on the eve of a peace settlement ending the
eight-year war of the American Revolution.
John Adams was a shrewd observer of the political and
diplomatic world in which he functioned and his comments on events
and personalities remain the most candid and revealing of any
American in Europe. His correspondence traces the complex
negotiations necessary to raise a Dutch loan and throws new light
on his conclusion of a treaty of amity and commerce with the
Netherlands, achievements of which he was most proud. Events in
England and elsewhere in Europe also provided grist for his pen.
Would the establishment in July of a new ministry under the earl of
Shelburne hinder or advance the cause of peace? That question
bedeviled Adams and his correspondents for the fate of the new
nation literally rode on its answer. The volume ends with Adams's
triumphal departure from The Hague to face new challenges at Paris
as one of the American commissioners to negotiate an Anglo-American
peace treaty.
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