Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy And The French And Indian War (war, Culture And Society, 1750-1850)
by Richard Hall /
2016 / English / PDF
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1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be
considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry
that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and
France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a
segment of the wider ‘Braddock Plan’ that aimed to drive the
French from all of the contested regions they occupied in North
America. Rather than being an archetypal military
history-styled analysis of General Edward Braddock’s foray into
the Ohio Valley, this work will argue that British defeat at the
infamous Battle of the Monongahela should be viewed as one that
ultimately embodied military, political and diplomatic
divergences and weaknesses within the British Atlantic World of
the eighteenth century. These factors, in turn, hinted at
growing schisms in the empire that would lead to the breakup of
British North America in the 1770s and the birth of the future
United States. Such an interpretation moves away from the
conclusion so often advanced that Braddock’s Defeat was a
distinctly, and principally ‘British’, martial catastrophe; hence
allowing the outcome of this pivotal event in American history to
be understood in a different vein than has hitherto been
apparent.
1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be
considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry
that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and
France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a
segment of the wider ‘Braddock Plan’ that aimed to drive the
French from all of the contested regions they occupied in North
America. Rather than being an archetypal military
history-styled analysis of General Edward Braddock’s foray into
the Ohio Valley, this work will argue that British defeat at the
infamous Battle of the Monongahela should be viewed as one that
ultimately embodied military, political and diplomatic
divergences and weaknesses within the British Atlantic World of
the eighteenth century. These factors, in turn, hinted at
growing schisms in the empire that would lead to the breakup of
British North America in the 1770s and the birth of the future
United States. Such an interpretation moves away from the
conclusion so often advanced that Braddock’s Defeat was a
distinctly, and principally ‘British’, martial catastrophe; hence
allowing the outcome of this pivotal event in American history to
be understood in a different vein than has hitherto been
apparent.
