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envoy
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John Adams, by McCullough
(Edited)

On March 2, Silas Deane was appointed a secret envoy to France to go "in the character of a merchant" to buy clothing and arms, and to appraise the "disposition" of France should the colonies declare independence.
Subsection 1.2.2

envoy = representative sent on a mission
But in notes made in early March, at the time Silas Deane was appointed as a secret envoy, Adams had stressed that there must be no political or military connection with France, only a commercial connection.
Subsection 1.3.2
With France and America now joined in common cause, he was no longer the envoy of a friendly nation but of an ally.
Subsection 2.4.3 *
It was the wish of Congress, as a way to save time, that an authorized American envoy be present in Europe to treat with the ministers of the other powers the moment peace became possible.
Subsection 2.5.1
La Vauguyon, in a letter to Vergennes, reported that everywhere the recognition of America and the reception of Adams as envoy "arouses the liveliest transports of joy."
Subsection 2.5.2
In fact, Vergennes had sent a secret envoy to London to hint to Lord Shelburne that France did not support all the demands of the Americans.
Subsection 2.5.3
In fact, the British envoys were not particularly impressive.
Subsection 2.5.3

envoys = representatives sent on missions
In letters to Congress stressing the need for an envoy to Britain, Adams neither offered recommendations nor said anything of his own feelings, as ardently as he wanted the assignment.
Subsection 2.6.4

envoy = representative sent on a mission
At the end of a round of ambassadorial "visits," he stopped to pay his respects to a new member of the diplomatic corps in London, His Excellency Abdrahaman, envoy of the Sultan of Tripoli.
Subsection 2.7.2
"Adams, the late envoy from the American states, set off for Portsmouth on Sunday last, to embark for his return," read a small item in the Whitehall Evening Post.
Subsection 2.7.4
The delegate to the first Continental Congress, preparing to depart for Philadelphia, felt "unalterable anxiety"; the envoy sailing for France wrote of "great diffidence in myself."
Subsection 3.8.2
Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.
Subsection 3.8.4
The President, he reported to Jefferson, was sending Chief Justice John Jay as a special envoy to London to "find a way to reconcile our honor with peace."
Subsection 3.8.4
Within days Adams appointed two special envoys who, with General Pinckney, would comprise a new commission to proceed to Paris.
Subsection 3.9.2

envoys = representatives sent on missions
Also, importantly, of the three envoys Gerry was the most sympathetic to France and, with his open admiration of Jefferson, came the closest to making it a bipartisan commission.
Subsection 3.9.2
In Paris the three American envoys would be dealing with the extremely wily and charming new French Foreign Minister, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord.
Subsection 3.9.2
Convinced that the best hope for the world was the defeat of Britain by France, and that such an outcome was imminent, Jefferson privately advised the French charge d'affaires in Philadelphia, Philippe-Henry-Joseph de Letombe, that the Directory should show the three American envoys all proper courtesy but "then drag out the negotiations at length."
Subsection 3.9.2
SUMMER MARKED the departure of the envoys, Gerry sailing from Boston, Marshall from Philadelphia, where Congress sweltered and fumed trying to wind up business, before "the sick season" came on.
Subsection 3.9.2
There was still no report from the three envoys to France.
Subsection 3.9.3
"We are yet all in the dark respecting our envoys," Abigail wrote on February 16; and again in another week: "Our envoys have been near six months in Paris but to this hour not a line has been received."
Subsection 3.9.3
"We are yet all in the dark respecting our envoys," Abigail wrote on February 16; and again in another week: "Our envoys have been near six months in Paris but to this hour not a line has been received."
Subsection 3.9.3
The government of France had refused to see the envoys.
Subsection 3.9.3
After arriving in Paris in the first week of October, the three American envoys were kept waiting for several days and then were granted a meeting with Foreign Minister Talleyrand for all of fifteen minutes.
Subsection 3.9.3
Then began a series of visits from three secret agents representing Talleyrand—Jean Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval—who were referred to by the Americans in their dispatches as X, Y, and Z. The Foreign Minister was favorably disposed toward the United States, the American envoys were informed, but in order for negotiations to proceed, a douceur (a sweetener) would be necessary, a bribe of some $250,000 for Talleyrand personally.
Subsection 3.9.3
He wrote of the "continued violences" of the French at sea, of their "unexampled arrogance" in refusing to receive the envoys, and declared such "injury, outrage, and insult" more than a self-respecting nation should ever have to submit to.
Subsection 3.9.3
Whether he would reveal more of the dispatches was something only he could determine, she told Mary; but "clamor who will," great care must be taken that nothing endanger the lives of the envoys who were still in Paris.
Subsection 3.9.3
Adams, who had apparently concluded that the envoys were by now safely out of France, released the documents the next day, and with the galleries cleared of visitors and the doors secured, the House went into executive session.
Subsection 3.9.3
It was said that the whole XYZ story was a contrivance of the Federalist warmongers, that the breakdown of negotiations was the fault of the American envoys.
Subsection 3.9.3
Had Adams refrained from insulting the French, had he chosen more suitable envoys, the country would never have been brought to such a pass.
Subsection 3.9.3
Dated April i 2, two months past, it revealed that while envoys Pinckney and Marshall had left Paris, Elbridge Gerry had remained behind.
Subsection 3.9.3
Nor, importantly, was her influence always decisive, as shown by his choice of Elbridge Gerry as an envoy to France and, most importantly, his continued reluctance to declare war.
Subsection 3.9.3

envoy = representative sent on a mission
Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.
Subsection 3.10.2

envoys = representatives sent on missions
LATE IN THE DAY, August 5, Adams received a dispatch from Pickering containing a letter from Talleyrand dated May 12, assuring that the American envoys would be received with all appropriate respect.
Subsection 3.10.2
My opinions and determinations in these subjects are so well made up, at least to my satisfaction, that not many hours will be necessary for me to give you my ultimate sentiments concerning the matter or form of the instructions to be given to the envoys.
Subsection 3.10.2
But even were that to happen, what injury could it mean for the United States to have envoys there?
Subsection 3.10.2
"I cannot account for the long delay of our envoys," wrote Marshall, who had begun to have doubts and reminded the President that there must be no sacrifice of American honor to please the First Consul.
Subsection 3.10.5
"We ought not be surprised if we see our envoys without a treaty," he warned, and this could produce "a critical state of things."
Subsection 3.10.5
Gifts were presented to the American envoys, toasts raised to perpetual peace between the two nations.
Subsection 3.10.5
On April 1, 1814, at St. Petersburg, John Quincy received word that he had been appointed a peace envoy to negotiate an end to the War of 1812, and was to proceed at once to Ghent in Flanders (Belgium).
Subsection 3.12.1

envoy = representative sent on a mission
He was particularly funny in an account of an interview he had with the Turkish ambassador [the envoy from Tripoli] in England.
Subsection 3.12.3

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(1) (envoy)
a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.

envoy in John Adams, by McCullough (Edited)

envoy
in
John Adams, by McCullough
(Edited)