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Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America


Year: 1995
Language: english
Author: James Pritchard
Genre: History
Publisher: ‎ McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 349
Description: 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. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.

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