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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
Unlikely Allies tells the intertwined story of Silas Deane, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and the Chevalier d’Éon. Joel Richard Paul reconstructs the clandestine schemes that moved French arms and money to the rebelling colonies before formal alliance. Blending biography, diplomacy, and espionage, the book shows how unconventional intermediaries helped sustain the American Revolution at its most vulnerable moment.
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Publication date
- 2010-11-02
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN
- 9781594484872
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