Andrew Mitchell and Anglo-Prussian diplomatic relations during the Seven Years War

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by  Patrick Francis Doran

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ANDREW MITCHELL AND
ANGLO-PRUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS DURING THE SEVEN
YEARS WAR

ANDREW MITCHELL AND
ANGLO-PRUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS DURING THE SEVEN
YEARS WAR
PATRICK F. DORAN
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ANDREW MITCHELL AND
ANGLO-PRUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
THE WAR
DURING SEVEN YEARS
Patrick Francis Doran
Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London
1986
Copyright © 1986 by Patrick F. Doran
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Doran, Patrick E (Patrick Francis)
Andrew Mitchell and Anglo-Saxon diplomatic
relations during the Seven Years War.
(Outstanding theses from the London School of
Economics and Political Science)
Bibliography: p.
1. Great Britain-Foreign relations-Prussia
(Germany) 2. Great Britain-Foreign relations-18th
century. 3. Mitchell, Andrew. 4. Seven Years' War,
1756-1763-Diplomatic history. 5. Prussia (Germany)
Foreign relations-Great Britain. 6. Prussia
(Germany)-Foreign relations_.:.1740-1786. I. Title.
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ANDREW MITCHELL AND ANGLO-PRUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
Thesis submitted for the Ph.D. degree
of the University of London
by
Patrick Francis Doran
Queen Mary College
August 1972

PREFACET O GARLANEDD ITION
This work was submitted in 1972 for the award of the Ph.D. degree of the
university of London. In its preparation for publication, fourteen
years later, the temptation to amplify and expand has been resisted.
Apart from a few stylistic and presentational changes, the thesis is as
it was presented.
In the intervening years, a number of studies have appeared dealing with
various aspects of the Seven Years War period. Some of them have
touched on the theme which is examined here, though none of them has
caused me to alter my views.
To preserve authenticity, I have not included these studies in the
bibliography, nor have I altered, in the notes, the time-honoured
archival attribution of B.M. to that of B.L., now mandatory since the
formation of the British Library out of the ribs of the British Museum.
Other changes, more painful and more personal, have been the passing
away of individuals whose friendship and advice is now but a treasured
memory. I particularly remember here Cecilia, Lady Sempill who so
generously made available to me the Craigievar Papers now in the British
Library. Her family connection with Sir Andrew Mitchell made tangible
the period under review: the plotting of the British envoy's campaign