The war for America: 1775 - 1783
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface:
The Servants of
Kronos
xiii
Office-holders in the Cabinet,
1775-83
xviii-xix
List of Abbreviations
xx
Introduction: A Government at War
ι
1.
And Great
Bellona
Smiles;
2.
A War of the
Anden
Régime;
3.
John will
wallow in preferment;
4.
The Blueprint of the War Machine;
5.
The Machine in
Motion;
6.
One Great Director
part one: the citadels of rebellion
1775-7
1.
Lord Dartmouth s War
27
I.
The Watching Enemy;
2.
The Rebels;
3.
Conscience and Policy;
4.
The Decision
to Fight;
5.
Damming the Flood;
6.
A Winter Offensive
II.
The Coming of Germain
46
1.
The Third Secretary;
2.
A Man with a Past;
3.
The First Weeks in Office;
4.
The Strategy ofReconquest
Ш.
The Great Concentration
61
1.
The Timetable;
2.
Shipping the Supplies;
3.
A Bid for Decision
iv.
The Arrested Offensive
73
l. These Noble Heroes;
2.
The Winter at Quebec and Boston;
3.
The Concentration
off New York;
4.
The Clearing of New York;
5.
The Arrested Offensive;
6.
Gains
and Losses: The Failure of the Blockade
v. The Planning of Saratoga
103
1.
A Need for Victory;
2.
Germain and the Generals;
3.
Howe s Plans of Campaign;
4.
The Plan for Canada;
5.
Supplies and Reinforcements
Vlil
CONTENTS
part two: the world war
1778
vi.
Philadelphia and Saratoga
121
1.
Howe andBurgoyne;
2.
Delays in the South;
3.
The Campaign of Philadelphia;
4.
The Advance from Canada;
5.
The Fatal Decision;
6.
The Last Scenes on the
Hudson;
7.
Conclusion
vii.
The Morrow of Saratoga
147
1.
Resignation of the Commanders-in-Chief;
2.
A Distracted Leader;
3.
A Strategic
Re-appraisal;
4.
The Breach with France
viii.
The Naval Mobilisation
162
1.
Sandwich and the Admiralty;
2.
The Peacetime Fleet;
3.
The State of Readiness;
4.
Mobilisation
ix.
War Plans and Preparations
180
1.
Lord Amherst;
2.
The Redeployment;
3.
The Peace Commission
x. The Command of the Seas
190
1.
The French Initiative;
2.
The British Riposte;
3.
Byron sails for America;
4.
Képpel
and the Channel Fleet; ¡. The Campaign in the Channel
xi.
Crisis in America
212
1.
Sir Henry Clinton;
2.
The Evacuation of Philadelphia;
3.
The Crisis Weathered;
4.
Failure of a Mission;
5.
A Provisioning Crisis
xii.
The Southern
Offensives
225
1.
The West Indian Theatre;
2.
St Lucia;
3.
The Reconquest of Georgia
PART THREE: THE BOURBON ALLIANCE
I778-9
xiii.
The Cracks in the Foundations
237
1.
The
Képpel
Affair;
2.
Generals and Admirals;
3.
The Disintegration of North
xiv.
The Strategy of
1779 249
1.
The Autumn Deployment;
2.
A Fresh Start in America;
3.
Erosion of the Plan;
4.
In the Teeth of Spain
CONTENTS
IX
xv.
The Western Atlantic: the Design Miscarries
267
1.
The Rebel Colonies;
2.
The Loss of Maritime Command;
3.
Disintegration of
the Western Theatres
xvi.
The Defence of England
279
1.
The Invasion Plan;
2.
The British Fleet;
3.
Suspense in the Channel;
4.
The
Plymouth Panic;
5.
The End of the Affair
part four: the edge of the knife
1779-80
xvii.
Towards the Caribbean
301
1.
Lord North and the People;
2.
A Case for Boldness;
3.
The Rodney Expedition;
4.
Pressure on Spain
xviii.
The Loss of the Initiative
319
1.
Admiral Rodney;
2.
The Relief of Gibraltar;
3.
Loss of the Initiative;
4.
Rodney
in the Leeward Islands;
5.
The Jamaican Sphere
xix.
Gain and Loss in America
338
1.
Clinton and the King s Peace;
2.
Comwallis in the
Carolinas; 3.
The French
Established;
4.
Treason among the Rebels
xx.
The Home Front,
1780 353
1.
The Command of the Channel Fleet;
2.
The Channel Operations;
3.
Repulse of
the Opposition
part five: catastrophe
і
780-1
xxi.
The Shadows Gather
367
1.
The Strain on Resources;
2.
The South Sea Enterprise;
3.
The Gathering
Storm;
4.
The End of the Initiative;
5.
Two Sides of the Hill
xxii.
The Defence of the East Atlantic
388
1.
Gibraltar and the Cape;
2.
The Cost of Gibraltar;
3.
The Defence of Trade;
4.
Return of the Combined Fleet
X
CONTENTS
xxiii.
Cornwallis
led a country
dance
401
і.
Germain and Clinton;
2.
Bankruptcy of the Southern Offensive;
3.
The March
to
Yorktown
xxiv.
The Anatomy of Disaster
413
1.
Clinton and Washington;
2.
Rodney and
de Grasse;
3.
The Fight for the Chesa¬
peake;
4.
The World Turned Upside Down;
5.
Conclusion
PART SIX: AN EMPIRE SALVAGED
xxv.
Saving the Ship
433
1.
The News of
Yorktown;
2.
The Loss of Minorca;
3.
The Work of Salvage;
4.
The Reinforcement Race
xxvi.
The Ship Afloat
446
1.
Rodney Away;
2.
The Race is Won;
3.
Victory;
4.
The Anatomy of Victory
xxvii.
The End of the Ministry
460
1.
The Departure of Germain;
2.
The Fail of the Ministry
xxviii. The New Brooms
471
1.
The Sack of the Fortress;
2.
The Order of Withdrawal;
3.
The Fleet in Home
Waters;
4.
The Third Relief of Gibraltar;
5.
The Comptroller Compares
xxix.
The Sky Suspended
487
1.
The Last Autumn;
2.
Final Operations in the Western Atlantic;
3.
Hyder
and
Suffren;
4.
The Last Battles
Conclusion
505
1.
The Peace;
2.
Reflections on a Lost War;
3.
The Aftermath;
4.
The Fates of Men
Appendix: The British Army
523
Bibliography
528
Index
539
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