Trials and Triumph

by Reuter, Frank T.

• ISBN13: 9780875650388
• ISBN10: 0875650384
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

When George Washington took office, the territory now known as the United States had been for many years a pawn in the struggle between Europe's great powers -- Great Britain, Spain, and France. It might easily have remained so had not Washington set about the invention of a firm but flexible foreign policy. In addition, Washington considered the persistent question of Indian relations along the entire American western frontier a part of his foreign relations policy.

In Trials and Triumphs, Frank T. Reuter traces individually Washington's negotiations and United States relations with Great Britain, Spain, and France, and with the various Indian nations, some of whom held strong allegiances to European powers. In Washington's second administration, the French Revolution brought a new focus to the international setting. During that second term, Washington and his administration, while dealing with the day-to-day expediencies of establishing a new nation safe from both her friends and enemies, set the precedents that would govern both the manner and matter of Am

Author Biography

Frank T. reuter is professor and former chairman of the department of history at Texas Christian University

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Prologue	p. xv
"The Sport of European Politics"	p. 1
"Integrity and Firmness is All I Can Promise"	p. 27
"... and Suffered With Impunity"	p. 58
"Spain is Playing a Game"	p. 104
"The French Albatross"	p. 139
"... to preserve the country in peace if I can"	p. 190
Essay on Sources	p. 232
Index	p. 244
Maps
British-held posts in United States Territory, 1783-1796	p. 19
Spanish Territorial Claims and Spanish Forts in U.S. Territory	p. 21
U.S. Military Reverses in the Ohio Territory, 1790-1791	p. 89
Anthony Wayne's Victory at Fallen Timbers, 1794	p. 193
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