The first global war : Britain, France, and the fate of North America, 1756-1775 / William R. Nester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nester, William R., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

United States.

United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Campaigns.

United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North American continent, engulfed Europe and India, and stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific waters. The new conflict, now commonly known as the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, was a direct continuation of the last French and Indian War. This study explores the North American campaigns in relation to events elsewhere in the world, from the ministries of Whitehall and Versailles to the land and sea battles in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Few wars have had a more decisive effect on international relations and national development. The French and Indian War resulted in France's expulsion from almost all of the Western Hemisphere, except for some tiny islands in the Caribbean and St. Lawrence. Britain emerged as the world's dominant sea power and would remain so for two centuries. Finally, within a generation or two the vast debts incurred by Whitehall and Versailles in waging this war would help to stimulate revolutions in America and France that would forever change world history.

Contents:

Cover

THE FIRST GLOBAL WAR

Contents

Introduction

1 1756

NORTH AMERICAN STRATEGIES

ROGERS' RANGERS

FORT OSWEGO, FORT BULL, AND THE RIVER FIGHT

POLITICAL INTRIGUE IN PENNSYLVANIA

INDIAN DIPLOMACY

THE NEW COMMANDERS

LAKE GEORGE

OSWEGO'S FALL AND AFTERMATH

THE FRONTIER WAR

THE WORLD WAR

WINTER QUARTERS

CONSEQUENCES

NOTES

2 1757

LOUDOUN AND VAUDREUIL

THE LAKE GEORGE FRONT

LOUISBOURG

FORT WILLIAM HENRY

LOUDOUN AND THE AMERICANS

3 1758

FORT CARILLON

FORT FRONTENAC

FORT DUQUESNE

4 1759

THE QUEBEC CAMPAIGN: FIRST PHASE

NIAGARA

THE PENNSYLVANIA FRONTIER

FORT CARILLON AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN

TO THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

5 1760

QUEBEC

RESTIGOUCHE

MURRAY

HAVILAND

AMHERST

CONVERGENCE

WORLD WAR

6 Peace and War, 1761-1768

CORRUPTION TRIALS

INDIAN WARS

TREATY OF PARIS

''AMHERST'S WAR'': 1763

THE PROCLAMATION OF 1763

''AMHERST'S WAR'': 1764

7 The World Turned Upside Down, 1763-1776

AMERICAN POSSIBILITIES

BRITISH PROBLEMS

THE ACTS

Bibliography

PAPERS IN INSTITUTIONS

PUBLISHED ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES: BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9798400651595

9780313003073

0313003076

OCLC:

55002864