The French Navy and American independence : a study of arms and diplomacy, 1774-1787
Print Book, English, ©1975
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1975
History
xv, 437 pages : maps ; 23 cm
9780691069203, 9780691644677, 0691069204, 0691644675
1500030
1774—the inheritance of Louis XVI
1775—an empire at peace, an empire at war
1776—the beginning of limited intervention
1777—the failure of limited intervention
1778—war without Spain
1779—war at the center
1780—war at the periphery
1781—the "Annus Mirabilis"
1782—disintegration and reprieve
1783-1787—epilogue