The French Navy and the Seven Years' War

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BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 287 / / French Navy and the Seven YearS’ War / Jonathan R. Dull 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [First Page] [287], (1) Lines: 0 to 26 ——— 1.82701pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [287], (1) Notes 1. 1748–1754—an uneasy peace 1. Richard Lodge, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Diplomacy, 1740–1748 (London: John Murray, 1930), 410–11; Reed Browning, The Duke of Newcastle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), 159. 2. An able study of Franco-British tensions is Jeremy Black, Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1986). 3. Examples include Jean Meyer and John Bromley,“The Second Hundred Years’War (1689–1815),”in Douglas Johnson, François Crouzet, and François Bédarida, eds., Britain and France: Ten Centuries (Folkestone, Eng.: William Dawson and Sons, 1980), 139– 72, and François Crouzet, “The Second Hundred Years’ War: Some Reflections,” French History 10 (1996): 432–50. 4. See especially Max Savelle,“The American Balance of Power and European Diplomacy , 1713–78,” in Richard B. Morris, ed., The Era of the American Revolution: Studies Inscribed to Evarts Boutell Greene (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), 140–69, although even Savelle treats this development as gradual. 5. See Jacob M. Price, “Who Cared about the Colonies? The Impact of the Thirteen Colonies on British Society and Politics, circa 1714–1775,” in Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 395–436; Jack P. Greene, “‘A Posture of Hostility’: A Reconsideration of Some Aspects of the Origins of the American Revolution,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., 87 (1977): 27–68. 6. Jeremy Black, “British Neutrality in the War of the Polish Succession, 1733–1735,” International History Review 8 (1986): 358–59. 7. Pierre Henri Boulle, “The French Colonies and the Reform of Their Administration During and Following the Seven Years’ War” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1968), 320–31, discusses the deficiencies of the Canadian economy. For the importance of tobacco from British North America to the French economy, see Jacob M. BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page 288 / / French Navy and the Seven YearS’ War / Jonathan R. Dull 288 Notes to Pages 2–4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [288], (2) Lines: 26 to 48 ——— 3.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [288], (2) Price, France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and of Its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades, 2 vols. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1973). 8. Browning, Duke of Newcastle, 207. 9. French Foreign Ministry Archives, Political Correspondence, Britain (Angleterre), volume 438, fiches 280–84, Antoine-Louis Rouillé, the French foreign minister, to Gaston -Charles-Pierre de Lévis de Lamogne, marquis de Mirepoix, the French ambassador to the British court, March 17, 1755. I will follow a simplified format for footnotes from French and British archival sources, giving the series (by country for documents from the French foreign ministry archives, by letters and numbers for naval documents from the French National Archives, by either “State Papers” and country or “Admiralty” for documents from the Public Record Office) followed by volume and page (or fiche) numbers. Rouillé’s letter is quoted by Richard Waddington, Louis XV et le renversement des alliances: Préliminaires de la guerre de Sept Ans, 1754–1756 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1896), 82–83,and Theodore Calvin Pease,ed.,Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in theWest,1749– 1763 (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1936), 159–64. 10. See the astute comments of Daniel Baugh in “Great Britain’s ‘Blue-Water’ Policy, 1689–1815,” International History Review 10 (1988): 46. 11. Crouzet, “Second Hundred Years War,” 443; C. I. Hamilton, Anglo-French Naval Rivalry, 1840–1870 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); Jan Glete, Navies and Nations: Warships , Navies, and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860, 2 vols. (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1933), 2:428. 12...