Atlantic Politics Military Strategy And The French And Indian War

Author : Richard Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319306650

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Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War by Richard Hall Pdf

1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a segment of the wider ‘Braddock Plan’ that aimed to drive the French from all of the contested regions they occupied in North America. Rather than being an archetypal military history-styled analysis of General Edward Braddock’s foray into the Ohio Valley, this work will argue that British defeat at the infamous Battle of the Monongahela should be viewed as one that ultimately embodied military, political and diplomatic divergences and weaknesses within the British Atlantic World of the eighteenth century. These factors, in turn, hinted at growing schisms in the empire that would lead to the breakup of British North America in the 1770s and the birth of the future United States. Such an interpretation moves away from the conclusion so often advanced that Braddock’s Defeat was a distinctly, and principally ‘British’, martial catastrophe; hence allowing the outcome of this pivotal event in American history to be understood in a different vein than has hitherto been apparent.

Author : Lorenzo Zambernardi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192674036

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Life, Death, and the Western Way of War by Lorenzo Zambernardi Pdf

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers—once regarded as simple fighting tools—became the far less expendable beings that we know today. In Kant's terms, the study traces the process through which soldiers have been turned from mere military means into ends in themselves. The book argues that such a major transformation is largely the result of a shift in the social meaning ascribed to soldiers' death. It suggests that looking at death can somehow provide a privileged angle to understanding the value that societies attach to life. The narrative emerging from the empirical evidence will show that the story of attitudes towards soldiers' death is the story of a gradual, increasing process of individualization in the social meaning attached to human loss in war. Such a development, which took centuries to emerge in full, was neither simple nor linear. It was a process that the state was temporarily able to frame in the collective narrative of the nation, but which ultimately has seen the increasing importance of the life of the individual soldier. In tracing the process through which soldiers have been turned from an amorphous collective into distinct individuals, this book shows how the emphasis on the primacy of the individual has further eroded the effectiveness of western warfare as an instrument of foreign policy. In particular, the modern, liberal conception of the soldier has had the unintended consequence of jeopardizing the Clausewitzian relationship between military means and political ends.

Author : Noah Shusterman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813944623

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Armed Citizens by Noah Shusterman Pdf

Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens, Noah Shusterman explains for a general reader what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. Suggesting that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms, Shusterman begins with the lessons that the founding generation took from the history of Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s reinterpretation of those myths during the Renaissance. He then turns to the rise of France’s professional army during seventeenth-century Europe and the fear that it inspired in England. Shusterman shows how this fear led British writers to begin praising citizens’ militias, at the same time that colonial America had come to rely on those militias as a means of defense and as a system to police enslaved peoples. Thus the start of the Revolution allowed Americans to portray their struggle as a war of citizens against professional soldiers, leading the authors of the Constitution to place their trust in citizen soldiers and a "well-regulated militia," an idea that persists to this day.

Author : Jonathan R. Dull
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803205109

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The French Navy and the Seven Years' War by Jonathan R. Dull Pdf

The Seven Years? War was the world?s first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. This book is the fullest account ever written of the French navy?s role in the hostilities. It is also the most complete survey of both phases of the war: the French and Indian War in North America (1754?60) and the Seven Years? War in Europe (1756?63), which are almost always treated independently. By considering both phases of the war from every angle, award-winning historian Jonathan R. Dull shows not only that the two conflicts are so interconnected that neither can be fully understood in isolation but also that traditional interpretations of the war are largely inaccurate. His work also reveals how the French navy, supposedly utterly crushed, could have figured so prominently in the War of American Independence only fifteen years later. ø A comprehensive work integrating diplomatic, naval, military, and political history, The French Navy and the Seven Years? War thoroughly explores the French perspective on the Seven Years? War. It also studies British diplomacy and war strategy as well as the roles played by the American colonies, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, and Portugal. As this history unfolds, it becomes clear that French policy was more consistent, logical, and successful than has previously been acknowledged, and that King Louis XV?s conduct of the war profoundly affected the outcome of America?s subsequent Revolutionary War.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1608 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89113659056

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968458

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : David Lee Preston
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199845323

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Braddock's Defeat by David Lee Preston Pdf

On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of power. An unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, Monongahela shocked the colonial world--and also planted the first seeds of an independent American consciousness. The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history. While the defeat is often blamed on blundering and arrogance on the part of General Braddock--who was wounded in battle and died the next day--David Preston's gripping new work argues that such a claim diminishes the victory that Indian and French forces won by their superior discipline and leadership. In fact, the French Canadian officer Captain Beaujeu had greater tactical skill, reconnaissance, and execution, and his Indian allies were the most effective and disciplined troops on the field. Preston also explores the long shadow cast by Braddock's Defeat over the 18th century and the American Revolution two decades later. The campaign had been an awakening to empire for many British Americans, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating many of the political and social divisions that would erupt with the outbreak of the Revolution. Braddock's Defeat was the defining generational experience for many British and American officers, including Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, and perhaps most significantly, George Washington. A rich battle history driven by a gripping narrative and an abundance of new evidence,Braddock's Defeat presents the fullest account yet of this defining moment in early American history.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112057495449

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Library of Congress Subject Headings: P-Z by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Laurie M. Wood
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252385

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Archipelago of Justice by Laurie M. Wood Pdf

An examination of France’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France’s first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial subjects sought political and legal influence via law courts, with strategies that reflected local and regional priorities, particularly regarding slavery, war, and trade. Through court records and legal documents, Wood reveals how courts became liaisons between France and new colonial possessions.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112060019699

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Library of Congress Subject Headings: F-O by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642131

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Guangqian Peng,Youzhi Yao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 780137892X

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The Science of Military Strategy by Guangqian Peng,Youzhi Yao Pdf

Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425393

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Crucible of War by Fred Anderson Pdf

In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker,James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097579

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The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 [3 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker,James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener Pdf

The only multivolume encyclopedia covering all aspects of North American colonial warfare, with special attention paid to the social, political, cultural, and economic affairs that were affected by the conflicts. Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775: A Political, Social, and Military History is the first multivolume resource on the full range of combat and confrontation in the New World prior to the American Revolution—not just rivalries between European empires but Indian conflicts, slave rebellions, and popular uprisings as well. Organized A–Z, the encyclopedia covers all major wars and conflicts in North America from the late-15th to mid-18th centuries, with discussions of key battles, diplomatic efforts, military technologies, and strategies and tactics. Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 explores the context for conflict, with essays on competing colonial powers, every major Native American tribe, all important political and military leaders, and a range of social and cultural issues. The insights and information contained here will help anyone understand the genesis of North American culture, the plight of Native Americans after European contact, and the beginnings of the United States of America.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : NWU:35556011334711

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf