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If you are interested in the pamphlet literature preceding the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris (1763) this will interest you. Written in December 1759 seemingly by an amateur strategist with very bullish idea of British power and influence, the author is a virulent antagonist of England's traditional enemy, France. Though well written and readable, it is undiplomatic, politically 'uncorrect', and extraordinarily unrealistic in its approach. It suggests that Britain should keep all its gains in North America whilst returning those elsewhere; occupy Brest until reparations of £30 million had been paid by France, less the value of the remainder of the French Navy, which would be handed over by the French. Apart from that, he suggests a complete reorganisation of the political map of Continental Europe, without much regard for the views of the participants, in some ways anticipating the Treaty of Vienna some 55 years later, in particular by suggesting the strengthening of Hanover and the German Rhenish principalities as a bulwark against France. As such it is an historical curiosity rather than a serious contribution to the debate on the proposed terms of the anticipated Peace Treaty.
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A plan for establishing the general peace of Europe upon the honourable terms to Great Britain
1987, Printed for R. Baldwin, ...
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"Hæ tibi erunt artes."
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the McLennan Library, McGill University, Montreal. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1987.
50 p. ; 20 cm.
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