Title The Channel Islands in Anglo-French relations, 1689-1918 / edited by Colin Partridge,, Jean de Préneuf and Andrew Lambert

Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, [2024] ©2024

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Corsairs -- the Ancien Régime and French Wars from 1689 -- 1 Granville's Privateers and Anglo-French Conflict in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2 The Politics of Neutrality During the Seven Years War -- Part 2: The Islands -- French and British Intelligence from the Seven Years War to 1815 -- 3 The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Strategy, 1756−82 -- Part 3: Territorial Waters -- the Land and Sea Interface from the 17th to 20th Centuries -- 4 Channel Islands Territorialisation 5 Captain Martin White RN and the Hydrography of the Islands -- Part 4: Engineering Strategic Change -- 6 Channel 'Harbours of Refuge' -- Their Origins and Failures -- Part 5: Alderney and the Channel Islands -- Naval Strategy from 1815 to 1905 -- 7 The Channel Islands in French Naval Strategy from 1815 to 1906 -- 8 Commanding the Channel: the Channel Islands in British Grand Strategy, 1814−1914 -- Part 6: Civil Societies and Anglo-French Naval Rivalry -- the 19th Century to WWI -- 9 Hydrographic and Nautical Knowledge in French Coastal-Defence Strategy -- 10 Alderney: The Impact of National Defence Part 7: Trade War -- the Protection of Channel Islands Shipping in the Great War -- 11 The Channel Islands in French Naval Strategy During the First World War -- 12 Royal Navy Trade Defence in the English Channel During the First World War -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject HISTORY / Military / Naval. Diplomatic relations SUBJECT Channel Islands. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2013002920 Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain Subject France Great Britain Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies -- Channel Islands Form Electronic book Author Partridge, Colin, editor. Préneuf, Jean de, editor. Lambert, Andrew, editor. ISBN 9781800109964 1800109962

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