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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Vienna (Wien, Austria) (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts
Berlin (Berlin, Germany) (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts
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Charles Deane (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts
Commissioners to foreign courts.
Soon after the Declaration of Independence a plan of treaties with foreign governments was reported by a committee on that subject, and Franklin, Deane, and Jefferson were appointed (Sept. 26, 1776) commissioners to the French Court.
Unwilling to leave his wife, whose health was declining, Jefferson refused the appointment, and Arthur Lee, then in London, was substituted for him; and after the loss of New York these commissioners were urged to press the subject of a treaty of alliance and commerce.
Commissioners were also appointed to other European courts in 1777—Arthur Lee to that of Madrid; his brother William (lately one of the sheriffs of London) to Vienna and Berlin, and Ralph Izard, of South Carolina, to Florence.
All but the French mission were failures.
Arthur Lee was not allowed to enter Madrid, and went on a fruitless errand to Germany; Izard made no attempt to visit Florence, and William Lee visited Berlin without accomplishing a
Benjamin Franklin (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts
Commissioners to foreign courts.
Soon after the Declaration of Independence a plan of treaties with foreign governments was reported by a committee on that subject, and Franklin, Deane, and Jefferson were appointed (Sept. 26, 1776) commissioners to the French Court.
Unwilling to leave his wife, whose health was declining, Jefferson refused the appointment, and Arthur Lee, then in London, was substituted for him; and after the loss of New York these commissioners were urged to press the subject of a treaty of alliance and commerce.
Commissioners were also appointed to other European courts in 1777—Arthur Lee to that of Madrid; his brother William (lately one of the sheriffs of London) to Vienna and Berlin, and Ralph Izard, of South Carolina, to Florence.
All but the French mission were failures.
Arthur Lee was not allowed to enter Madrid, and went on a fruitless errand to Germany; Izard made no attempt to visit Florence, and William Lee visited Berlin without accomplishing an
Arthur Lee (search for this): entry commissioners-to-foreign-courts