The first global war : Britain, France, and the fate of North America, 1756-1775 / / William R. Nester

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957856403321
• Autore: Nester William R. <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 9798400651595; 9780313003073; 0313003076
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2/6
• Soggetti: United States History French and Indian War, 1754-1763; United States History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 Campaigns; United States History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-300) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- THE FIRST GLOBAL WAR -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 1756 -- NORTH AMERICAN STRATEGIES -- ROGERS' RANGERS -- FORT OSWEGO, FORT BULL, AND THE RIVER FIGHT -- POLITICAL INTRIGUE IN PENNSYLVANIA -- INDIAN DIPLOMACY -- THE NEW COMMANDERS -- LAKE GEORGE -- OSWEGO'S FALL AND AFTERMATH -- THE FRONTIER WAR -- THE WORLD WAR -- WINTER QUARTERS -- CONSEQUENCES -- NOTES -- 2 1757 -- LOUDOUN AND VAUDREUIL -- THE LAKE GEORGE FRONT -- LOUISBOURG -- FORT WILLIAM HENRY -- THE FRONTIER WAR -- LOUDOUN AND THE AMERICANS -- THE WORLD WAR -- CONSEQUENCES -- NOTES -- 3 1758 -- THE FRONTIER WAR -- LOUISBOURG -- FORT CARILLON -- FORT FRONTENAC -- FORT DUQUESNE -- THE WORLD WAR -- CONSEQUENCES -- NOTES -- 4 1759 -- THE QUEBEC CAMPAIGN: FIRST PHASE -- NIAGARA -- THE PENNSYLVANIA FRONTIER -- FORT CARILLON AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN -- TO THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM -- THE WORLD WAR -- CONSEQUENCES -- NOTES -- 5 1760 -- QUEBEC -- RESTIGOUCHE -- THE FRONTIER WAR -- MURRAY -- HAVILAND -- AMHERST -- CONVERGENCE -- WORLD WAR -- CONSEQUENCES -- NOTES -- 6 Peace and War, 1761-; 1768 -- CORRUPTION TRIALS -- INDIAN WARS -- THE WORLD WAR -- TREATY OF PARIS -- ''AMHERST'S WAR'': 1763 -- THE PROCLAMATION OF 1763 -- ''AMHERST'S WAR'': 1764 -- NOTES -- 7 The World Turned Upside Down, 1763-1776 -- AMERICAN POSSIBILITIES -- BRITISH PROBLEMS -- THE ACTS -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- PAPERS IN INSTITUTIONS -- PUBLISHED ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES: BOOKS AND ARTICLES -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North American continent, engulfed Europe and India, and stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific waters. The new conflict, now commonly known as the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, was a direct continuation of the last French and Indian War. This study explores the North American campaigns in relation to events elsewhere in the world, from the ministries of Whitehall and Versailles to the land and sea battles in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Few wars have had a more decisive effect on international relations and national development. The French and Indian War resulted in France's expulsion from almost all of the Western Hemisphere, except for some tiny islands in the Caribbean and St. Lawrence. Britain emerged as the world's dominant sea power and would remain so for two centuries. Finally, within a generation or two the vast debts incurred by Whitehall and Versailles in waging this war would help to stimulate revolutions in America and France that would forever change world history.