Dull The French Navy and American Independence

A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6813-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 460 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R. Dull contends, and this belief shapes his account of the French navy as the means by which French diplomacy helped to win American independence. The author discusses the place of long-range naval requirements in the French decision to aid the American colonists, the part played by naval rivalry in the transition from limited aid to full-scale war, and the ways naval considerations affected French wartime diplomacy. His book focuses on military strategy and diplomatic requirements in a setting in which military officers themselves did not participate directly in decision-making, but in which diplomats had to take continual account of military needs.

Since military action is a means of accomplishing diplomatic goals, even military victory can prove hollow. The author examines the American war not as a successful exercise of French power, but rather as a tragic failure based on economic and political miscalculations. Among the questions he asks are: What relationship did the war bear to overall French diplomacy? What strains did the limited nature of the war impose on French diplomacy and war strategy? How did the results of the war relate to the objectives with which France entered the conflict?

Originally published in 1976.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dull, Jonathan R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. xi
Glossary, pg. xiii
Maps, pg. xvii
CHAPTER ONE. 1774—The Inheritance of Louis XVI, pg. 3
CHAPTER TWO. /77 J — A n Empire at Peace, An Empire at War, pg. 16
CHAPTER THREE. 1776—The Beginning of Limited Intervention, pg. 30
CHAPTER FOUR. 7777—The Failure of Limited Intervention, pg. 66
CHAPTER FIVE. 1778— War without Spain, pg. 95
CHAPTER Six. 1779—War at the Center, pg. 136
CHAPTER SEVEN. 1780—War at the Periphery, pg. 173
CHAPTER EIGHT. 1781—The uAnnus Mirabilis", pg. 211
CHAPTER NINE. 1782—Disintegration and Reprieve, pg. 262
CHAPTER TEN. 1783-1787—Epilogue, pg. 336
APPENDIX A. The Naval and Colonial Budget, 1776-1783, pg. 345
APPENDIX B. Ships of the Line, August 1774, pg. 351
APPENDIX C. Ships of the Line, Changes, 1775- February 1783, pg. 352
APPENDIX D. Frigates, pg. 356
APPENDIX E. Order of Battle, 1 July 1778, pg. 359
APPENDIX F. Order of Battle, 1 July 1779, pg. 361
APPENDIX G. Order of Battle, 1 July 1780, pg. 365
Appendix H. Order of Battle, 1 April 1781, pg. 369
APPENDIX I. Order of Battle, 1 April 1782, pg. 373
APPENDIX J. French Troops Sent to the Western Hemisphere, 1774-1782, pg. 377
APPENDIX K. Ships of the Line, 1 January 1181, pg. 378
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 379
INDEX, pg. 425