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Anatomy of a naval disaster : the 1746 French naval expedition to North America / James Pritchard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, James S., 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Frédéric de, duc d'Anville, 1709-1746.
- La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Frédéric de.
- Naval history.
- France--History, Naval--18th century.
- France.
- France--History--Louis XV, 1715-1774.
- United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748--Naval operations, French.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A compelling account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the eighteenth century.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Dates, Weights, Measures, and Currency
- Introduction
- Policy and Ambition: Background to a Naval Expedition
- Plans, Preparations, and Conflict
- Delays and Departures
- The Enterprise of a Passage
- Tragedy at Chibouctou
- The Lost Shepherds
- La Jonquière Takes Command
- The Final Agony
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85351-1
- 9786612853517
- 0-7735-6553-1
- OCLC:
- 32547441
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