The Hussey-Cumberland mission and American independence
Subtitle: an essay in the diplomacy of the American revolution
By: by Samuel Flagg Bemis ... Cover maps designed, from data furnished by the author, by Colonel Lawrence Martin ...
Publisher: Princeton university press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Hussey, Thomas, -- bp., -- 1741?-1803.; Cumberland, Richard, -- 1732-1811.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Spain.; Spain -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; Europe -- Politics and government -- 18th century.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, Spanish.
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.

"... Spain entered the war of American independence in 1779 as an ally of France but not of the United States. During the earlier years of that war the Spanish government had joined France in furnishing secret aid in money and military supplies to the ... American colonies. This was not because of any sympathy for the republican cause ... but ... [she] did want the strife ... to continue ... that both English colonies and mother-country should be weakened ... Then ... Spain might push her own interests ...": p. [1]