Anatomy of a Naval Disaster : The 1746 French Expedition to North America.
Title:
Anatomy of a Naval Disaster : The 1746 French Expedition to North America.
Author:
Pritchard, James.
ISBN:
9780773565531
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (349 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Dates, Weights, Measures, and Currency -- Introduction -- 1 Policy and Ambition: Background to a Naval Expedition -- 2 Plans, Preparations, and Conflict -- 3 Delays and Departures -- 4 The Enterprise of a Passage -- 5 Tragedy at Chibouctou -- 6 The Lost Shepherds -- 7 La Jonquière Takes Command -- 8 The Final Agony -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Ships and Men of the Expedition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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