This is the first full-scale examination of the politics, economics, adminstration, and execution of the expeditions to the West Indies which were mounted by the British against the French during the Revolutionary Wars. Hitherto these have been regarded as a side-show to the campaigns that were taking place in Europe; but the author, emphasizing the importance of the Caribbean in the Atlantic economy of the late eighteenth century, explains them as a bid for decisive supremacy in the battle for trade, seapower, and the sinews of war. Britain committed tens of thousands of soldiers to the struggle, while France retaliated by inciting colonial rebellion in a war which changed the future of the Caribbean, altered European attitudes to negroes, and enabled Britain to sustain its war effort in Europe. Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower sets the West Indies expeditions in their proper place as one of the most difficult and dangerous wars in British history, and places the fighting in its politica

Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower: The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War against Revolutionary France

History

Duffy, Michael

Americas

Oxford University Press

This text examines the rise to power of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), Britain's youngest head of government, and explores how he achieved this.

The Younger Pitt (Profiles in Power)

Longman Pub. Group

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Routledge

The French Revolutionary Wars (Modern Wars In Perspective)

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Goodgame, Dan

Simon&Schuster

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Education & Teaching

Duffy, D'Neil

Schools & Teaching

Parent Child Pr

From Chicago to Vietnam: A Memoir of War

Leaders & Notable People

Michael J. Duffy Co. Inc.

The Younger Pitt (Profiles In Power)

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Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Longman

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