New PDF release: The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (France Overseas:

By Jonathan R. Dull

The Seven Years’ struggle used to be the world’s first worldwide clash, spanning 5 continents and the serious sea lanes that hooked up them. This ebook is the fullest account ever written of the French navy’s position within the hostilities. it's also the main entire survey of either levels of the conflict: the French and Indian conflict in North the US (1754–60) and the Seven Years’ struggle in Europe (1756–63), that are frequently taken care of independently. through contemplating either levels of the warfare from each perspective, award-winning historian Jonathan R. boring indicates not just that the 2 conflicts are so interconnected that neither may be absolutely understood in isolation but in addition that conventional interpretations of the struggle are mostly erroneous. His paintings additionally finds how the French army, supposedly totally beaten, may have figured so prominently within the warfare of yankee Independence in basic terms fifteen years later.

A entire paintings integrating diplomatic, naval, army, and political heritage, The French army and the Seven Years’ War completely explores the French standpoint at the Seven Years’ struggle. It additionally reviews British international relations and struggle process in addition to the jobs performed through the yank colonies, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, and Portugal. As this background unfolds, it turns into transparent that French coverage was once extra constant, logical, and profitable than has formerly been said, and that King Louis XV’s behavior of the struggle profoundly affected the end result of America’s next innovative War.

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