Ep. 114 — John Adams Represents America Abroad

For most of the American Revolution, John Adams was representing America in Europe. Hear all about it in this episode!

John Adams by John Singleton Copley. London, 1783

We've talked about Benjamin Franklin's time in France. Learn about Arthur Lee here! 

By John Trumbull - https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/123, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=188898048

John Adams' time in Holland was more successful. 

Then, it was time to go back to France to negotiate the Treaty of Paris. 

After peace was secured, he continued representing America abroad. 

One of the big victories was the Prussian-American Treaty of 1785.

Then, he got a huge job. The first ever U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James' in London. 

Hist meeting with King George III was a big moment in history.

Then, in 1788, he headed back home to America. And he would have even bigger jobs to do!