Carlisle Peace Commission (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Carlisle Peace Commission was a group of British negotiators who were sent to North America in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, with a belated offer to the rebellious United States of self-rule within the British empire. The Continental Congress, aware that British troops were about to be withdrawn from Philadelphia, insisted on demanding full independence, which the commission was not authorized to grant. The commission marked the first time the British government formally agreed to negotiate with Congress; a previous attempt at negotiation in 1776 took place despite lacking that formality. The commission sailed back to Britain in November 1778. The British, being unable to bring Washington to a decisive engagement, resumed the military campaign, and turned to a "Southern Strategy" as their next attempt to win the war in North America.