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Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower - The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War Against Revolutionary France (Hardcover)
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Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower - The British Expeditions to the West Indies and the War Against Revolutionary France (Hardcover)
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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 political, economic, and logistical
context.
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