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Anatomy of a Naval Disaster : The 1746 French Expedition to North America by James Pritchard (1995, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773513256

ISBN-139780773513259

eBay Product ID (ePID)294901

Product Key Features

Number of Pages344 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAnatomy of a Naval Disaster : the 1746 French Expedition to North America

SubjectMilitary / Naval, Europe / France

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

AuthorJames Pritchard

Subject AreaHistory

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN96-154384

Reviews"Pritchard broadens our understanding of a misunderstood event in colonial North American history and fits it into the contexts of French and European diplomatic and naval history. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster will stand as the authoritative treatment of the d'Enville expedition." W.G. Godfrey, History, Mount Allison University.

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal944/.034

SynopsisIntended as a riposte to the Anglo-American capture of Louisbourg in 1745, the so-called d'Enville expedition set out from France the following year to secure Canada, recapture Acadia and Louisbourg, and ravage the New England coast as far south as Boston. Many of the sixty-four French vessels involved did not return and estimates of the dead reached as high as eight thousand. Yet the enemy was never met in battle. James Pritchard's account of this naval fiasco sheds new light on the extent of the tragedy and raises questions about the role and effectiveness of naval power during the intercolonial wars of the mid-eighteenth century., 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.

LC Classification NumberDC52.P75 1995