Table of Contents

Preface Part I. The Initiation 1. War of the Austrian Succession 2. A King of the Romans 3. The Congress at Hanover Part II. The Turkish Equation 4. Constantinople 5. Ceremony and Debts at the Court of the Sultan 6. 1755- Turkish Declaration to Russia 7. The Diplomatic Revolution 8. 1761- Trade Treaties with the Porte 9. Matters of Prestige 10. 1764- The Election of the King of Poland 11. War PART III. In and Out of Retirement 12. Recall 13. To Stockholm 14. Coup d'etat 15. From Stockholm to Versailles Part IV. The War That Changed Everything 16. The Past, Present, and Future in 1774 17. The Spanish Temptation 18. The Revolution in America 19. Gates and Washington: Saratoga and Germantown 20. The Decision to Intervene 21. Spain Enters the War 22. Dutch Neutrality: 1776-1782 Part V. The Master Juggler Performs 23. The Bavarian Crisis: I 24. The Bavarian Crisis: II 25. Mogilev 26. Peace Appears Trailing Clouds of Ambitions 27. The Crisis of 1783 28. The Vergennes Family 29. Gibraltar 30. The Right to Catch Fish 31. The Mississippi Boundary Part VI. Eve of Disaster 32. The Legacy of the American War 33. The Scheldt River Dispute: 1780-1785 34. Relations with Italy: 1774-1787 35. Commerce and Diplomacy I: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786 36. Commerce and Diplomacy II: The Franco-Russian Treaty of 1787 and Other Treaties 37. The Dutch Entanglement: 1783-1787 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index