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1782 newspaper with a long report with details of a PLAN to END the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR - inv # 8W-428
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Northampton Mercury (ENGLAND) dated Feb 18, 1782. This original newspaper contains a long back page report headlined: "THE OUTLINES OF A PLAN TO PUT A SPEEDY PERIOD TO THE PRESENT CALAMITOUS WAR WITH NORTH AMERICA, FRANCE, SPAIN AND HOLLAND". THis 1 and 1/3 column back page report is the earliest detailed account of how a peace treaty would look ending the American Revolutionary War. The most important point is the 1st, "...That the Independency of the American States be granted, and guaranteed by Greeat Britain, forever..."
This issue also contains front page news of the arch American traitor, BENEDICT ARNOLD, after he tried to surender West Point to the British (but was discovered and forced to fle to the British protection).
When news of the late 1781 British defeat at Yorktown, VA reached England, support for the war in America faded in both the British Parliament and the public. England agreed to begin peace negotiations with the Americans to end the Revolutionary War. After Yorktown, the Continental Congress appointed a small group of statesmen to travel to Europe and negotiate a peace treaty with the British: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson and Henry Laurens.
Jefferson, however, was not able to leave the United States for the negotiations, and Laurens had been captured by a British warship and held captive in the Tower of London until the end of the war, so the principal American negotiators were Franklin, Adams and Jay.
Franklin, who served as America’s first ambassador to France, had been in Paris since the start of the Revolution and was instrumental in securing French assistance during the war. Peace negotiations between British and American diplomats began there in the spring of 1782 and continued into the fall.
The British wanted to end the costly war, but peace negotiations stalled when England wouldn’t recognize United States independence – a point on which the American delegation refused to budge. After the election of a new, more pro-American Parliament, Great Britain soon gave in and accepted the terms of American independence.
Benedict Arnold (14 January 1741 – June 14, 1801) was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780. General George Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines. In the later part of the war, Arnold was commissioned as a brigadier general in the British Army and placed in command of the American Legion. He led the British army in battle against the soldiers whom he had once commanded, after which his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal in the United States.
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