Overview
- Reinterprets the 'Braddock Plan' within a colonial and transnational context
- Shows its relevance to both the British empire and American independence
- Challenges our current historical understanding of early modern American history
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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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 theconclusion 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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Richard Hall is Lecturer at Swansea University, UK. His research interests include the French and Indian War, the campaigns associated with this pivotal conflict, and the clash of military cultures in North America during the colonial period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War
Authors: Richard Hall
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30665-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80864-2Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30665-0Published: 28 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of France, History of Military