The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763 : Britain and France in a Great Power Contest.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of maps -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to first edition -- 1 Introduction -- North America's emerging importance -- Canada's utility for France -- A global contest -- Geography and policy -- 2 Statesmen and regimes -- The Duke of Newcastle -- The Earl of Hardwicke -- William Pitt -- The duc de Choiseul -- 3 Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 -- Acadia and Nova Scotia -- The New York frontier -- Ohio: the French predicament -- Ohio: the French solution -- Virginia responds -- A contest in India: Dupleix's project -- 4 Risking war, 1754-55 -- Canada's preparedness for frontier fighting -- British North America's unreadiness -- Britain raises the stakes -- The futile negotiation -- Britain and Europe -- London under pressures, Versailles under illusions -- 5 War without declaration: North America, 1755 -- The French navy gambles and wins -- Nova Scotia -- Braddock and disaster -- Campaigns in northern New York -- 6 Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 -- The seizure of French shipping, 1755 -- The Netherlands and Hanover -- Pitt and the Russian subsidy -- Paralysis at Versailles -- 7 French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 -- Minorca undefended, Dutch neutrality inevitable -- France and the Diplomatic Revolution -- Admiral Byng and the French conquest of Minorca -- Oswego destroyed -- British and American armies -- 8 France's European war plan, 1756-57 -- Pitt attains his goal -- War begins on the continent -- France's European war plan -- The trial of Admiral Byng -- Pitt, George II and Germany -- The French invasion of Germany -- A Hanoverian policy -- Louisbourg and Lake George -- The Rochefort expedition -- 9 The tide turns, 1758 -- The French army in Germany: defeat and disaster -- War in India: Bengal.

Britain achieves naval superiority -- Raids on the French Channel coast -- Lack of funds limits French war effort -- 10 The Atlantic and North America, 1758 -- Sea power and shipping -- West Africa -- Changing conditions of warfare in North America -- The capture of Louisbourg and its antecedents -- Ticonderoga and Frontenac -- Mountains and Indians: the road to Fort Duquesne -- 11 The West Indies and North America, 1759 -- Martinique and Guadeloupe -- The taking of Fort Niagara -- Amherst on Lake Champlain -- Montcalm, Vaudreuil and defence of Canada -- The capture of Quebec -- 12 The British victory at sea, 1759 -- Invasion threat and blockade of Brest -- Lagos and Quiberon Bay -- France reduced to a single war aim -- 13 Britain conquers afar -- disunity looms at home -- War in India: the Coromandel Coast -- Enabling French war finance -- The British conquest of Canada, 1760 -- Pitt and the German war -- Choiseul's approach to peace, 1759-60 -- The Pitt-Newcastle administration undermined -- 14 The chance of peace, 1761 -- Antecedents: Spain, Austria and Ferdinand's winter campaign -- Choiseul's two negotiations -- Belle-Île and Westphalia -- The Anglo-French negotiation -- Choiseul and the lost chance of peace -- Pitt's resignation and the path to war with Spain -- 15 Peacemaking 1762: concessions before conquests -- Aftermath of Pitt's resignation -- The German war and the Prussian subsidy -- Martinique conquered -- The secret negotiation -- The defence of Portugal -- The capture of Havana -- Peace with bitterness -- 16 Conclusion and aftermath -- Britain: from military failure to success -- Legacy of France's extension of the war -- Outcomes: peace terms, British finances, Spain and Royal Navy -- Peace terms -- British finances -- Spain -- Royal Navy -- Britain and North America -- Abbreviations and short titles -- Notes on sources -- Index.

In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasises the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings - always French - that failed to receive needed financial support.

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