Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War

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 segmen

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War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850

War, Culture and Society, 1750−1850

Series Editors Rafe Blaufarb Tallahassee, USA Alan Forrest York, UK Karen Hagemann Chapel Hill, USA

Richard Hall

Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War

Richard Hall Department of History and Classics University of Swansea Swansea, United Kingdom

War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 ISBN 978-3-319-30664-3 ISBN 978-3-319-30665-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30665-0

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PREFACE

ATLANTIC POLITICS, MILITARY STRATEGY AND THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SUMMARY It was the year of 1755 that truly marked the point at which events in America ceased to be considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry between two of the foremost colonial powers of the eighteenth century, Great Britain and France. Events prior to 1755, centered around the Ohio Valley (a strategically vital region of North America), had seen Britain’s sovereign claims in this region truncated, as the French built a series of forts designed to hem in its rival’s colonies along the Atlantic seaboard, preventing any future expansion into North America’s lucrative interior. This book is dedicated to an examination of Braddock Campaign of 1755, a component segment of the grand “Braddock Plan” devised in London and guided principally by the aggressive predispositions of the Duke of Cumberland. It was a strategy aimed at driving the French from all of the contested regions they occupied in North America. Rather than being an archetypal military-historical analysis of the defeat of General Edward Braddock on the ban

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