American Militia Case Study

American militia diplomats were fully aware that the French were more antagonists of the English than their (US’s) friend. Moreover, doughty Jay became alarmed by the proposal of Joseph Rayneval, Vergennes’ secretary, that US should be cooped itself up to east of the Appalachians for Spain’s interest. His suspicion arose when he came to know that Joseph Rayneval secretly left Paris for London. He became clear that France was about to sacrifice American interests to Britain so that a weak French-dependent US republic might born. Then he communicated with Franklin and promptly sent a special emissary to London to open a separate negotiation with the British ignoring the instructions of the Continental Congress. Though Jay’s attempt was non-ethical
Britain had to do this to help loyal Canada on the northern frontiers and unite the Indians against Americans. The American authority also did not take any drastic action against British presence at the beginning because they better realized that if England had not been war-weary, she might have crushed the colonial armies. According to Vergennes, the French minister, ‘ . . You will notice that the English buy the peace more than they make it. Their concessions, in fact, as much as to the boundaries as to the fisheries and loyalists, exceed all that I should have thought possible.’ However, it was neither England’s unexpected generosity nor Shelburne’s foolishly ‘the dishonorable surrender’ as his critiques claimed. In fact, Shelburne wanted to shake off ‘the white men’s burden’ and desired to establish profitable commercial relationship and keep the United States away from French post-war influence as well as to avert future friction with the United States. What Shelburne aimed was to win over his three European foes i.e. France, Spain and Netherlands by reducing America from the ranks of enemy. Thus, he tried to lure Americans into a loose tie with the British Empire. This trend of Anglo-American relationship developed afterwards and stretched to the present though some bitter incidents occurred between
From the suspicious attitudes of the both countries, the militia diplomats of America realized that neither of the two countries wanted a strong republic in America. It was obvious that the ruling classes of Europe were anxious about the success of the American experiment of Democracy. If democracy sustained there, the oppressed subjects of the European countries might demand the same in their country. So, the crowned heads of Europe were waiting like vultures for the break-up of American states as the continental congress was not strong enough to accumulate the strength of the states under the weak constitution of ‘Article of confederation.’ Moreover, the congress was fully aware that a large number of Americans were expecting reconciliation with the motherland. More specifically to say, the American business community was counting on a restoration of commercial privileges and other imperial advantages. Thus, John Adams was sent to England as the first minister of the United States in