The accidental traveller: John Adam’s journey through northern Spain, 1779–1780

Authors

  • Richard L. Kagan Johns Hopkins University.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiv.28.2015.15636

Keywords:

John Adams, Spain, Travel, 18th Century, United States, Diplomatic and political relations

Abstract

In 1779, John Adams, the future second president of the United States, traveled in mid-winter across northern Spain. En route to Paris to negotiate a peace treaty between Great Britain and its rebellious former North American colonies, a leaking vessel forced Adams and his party to land expectedly at El Ferrol and then continue overland to France. Using his diary as its principal source, this essay focuses of Adams’s accidental journey, his impressions of the economic, political, and religious condition of the places he visited, together with the future president’s thoughts about the possibility of creating closer relationship between his country and the Spain of Charles III.

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How to Cite

Kagan, R. L. (2015). The accidental traveller: John Adam’s journey through northern Spain, 1779–1780. Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, (28), 117–132. https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiv.28.2015.15636

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