The First Fleets : Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775 / Benjamin C Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Benjamin C., author.

Series:

Maritime currents.

Maritime Currents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--History--18th century.

United States.

Great Britain--History, Naval--17th century.

Great Britain.

United States--History--To 1900.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The transatlantic roots of provincial navies up to 1685

Provincial navies in the First Imperial Wars of 1689-1713

Provincial navies and irregular warfare on imperial borderlands, c. 1713-1739

The War of Jenkins' Ear and the incomplete "royalization" of American naval defense

The replacement of provincial navies by the Royal Navy in the Seven Years' War, c. 1756-1763

The legacy of provincial navies and the navies of the American Revolution, c. 1762-1775.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-9559-8

OCLC:

1518472518