The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787

by Jonathan R. Dull

Book Overview

Military history is an essential component of wartime diplomatic history, Jonathan R. Dull contends, and this belief shapes his account of the French navy as the means by which French diplomacy helped to win American independence. The author discusses the place of long-range naval requirements in the French decision to aid the American colonists, the part played by naval rivalry in the transition from limited aid to full-scale war, and the ways naval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069204
• ISBN13: 9780691069203
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.