The French Navy and American Independence : : A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 / / Jonathan R. Dull.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Dull, Jonathan R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1239
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)

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 th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Glossary
• Maps
• CHAPTER ONE. 1774-The Inheritance of Louis XVI
• CHAPTER TWO. /77 J - A n Empire at Peace, An Empire at War
• CHAPTER THREE. 1776-The Beginning of Limited Intervention
• CHAPTER FOUR. 7777-The Failure of Limited Intervention
• CHAPTER FIVE. 1778- War without Spain
• CHAPTER Six. 1779-War at the Center
• CHAPTER SEVEN. 1780-War at the Periphery
• CHAPTER EIGHT. 1781-The uAnnus Mirabilis"
• CHAPTER NINE. 1782-Disintegration and Reprieve
• CHAPTER TEN. 1783-1787-Epilogue
• APPENDIX A. The Naval and Colonial Budget, 1776-1783
• APPENDIX B. Ships of the Line, August 1774
• APPENDIX C. Ships of the Line, Changes, 1775- February 1783
• APPENDIX D. Frigates
• APPENDIX E. Order of Battle, 1 July 1778
• APPENDIX F. Order of Battle, 1 July 1779
• APPENDIX G. Order of Battle, 1 July 1780
• Appendix H. Order of Battle, 1 April 1781
• APPENDIX I. Order of Battle, 1 April 1782
• APPENDIX J. French Troops Sent to the Western Hemisphere, 1774-1782
• APPENDIX K. Ships of the Line, 1 January 1181
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX