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Author Pritchard, James S., 1939-2015.

Title Anatomy of a naval disaster : the 1746 French naval expedition to North America / James Pritchard
Published Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Policy and Ambition: Background to a Naval Expedition -- Plans, Preparations, and Conflict -- Delays and Departures -- The Enterprise of a Passage -- Tragedy at Chibouctou -- The Lost Shepherds -- La Jonquière Takes Command -- The Final Agony
Summary A compelling account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the eighteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index
Notes English
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Subject La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Frédéric de, duc d'Anville, 1709-1746.
La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Frédéric de, duc d'Anville, 1709-1746
Naval history.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
Military operations, Naval -- French
Naval history
France -- History, Naval -- 18th century.
France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774.
United States -- History -- King George's War, 1744-1748 -- Naval operations, French
Canada -- History -- 1713-1763 (New France)
France
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773565531
0773565531
1282853511
9781282853515
9786612853517
6612853514