Nicholas Tracy

The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759 (eBook, ePUB)

Hawke and the Defeat of the French Invasion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative history chronicles the Royal Navy's decisive yet little-known victory over the French during the Seven Years' War.

In the mid-18th century, with virtually no regular troops at home, Britain was especially vulnerable to the immanent threat of French invasion. In a cunning naval offensive, the British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke intercepted French ships on their way to rendezvous with invasion troopships gathered at the mouth of the Loire. Unfairly overlook in history books, the Battle of Quiberon Bay not only spoiled the planned French invasion, but also established British naval dominance. Once under attack, the French changed course for Quiberon Bay, assuming the British would not follow them among its treacherous shoals in stormy weather. Yet Hawke pursued them under full sail. The French ships were destroyed, captured, run aground or scattered-while the British only suffered two ships run aground. In this insightful narrative, Nicholas Tracy studies the battle, its strategic consequences, and its effect on the war for North America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Maritime
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781844681662
• Artikelnr.: 37944968

Autorenporträt

Dr Nicholas Tracy is a member of the History Department of the University of New Brunswick, and an associate of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. He has written extensively on naval strategy, tactics in the age of sail, art history, and biography, and is now engaged in a study of Canada's use of naval forces following the end of the Cold War. He is an experienced yachtsman and brings his understanding of the sea to bear on his descriptions of naval warfare. Though "Nelson's Battles" is his first book to appear in the Seaforth Publishing imprint, Tracy has worked for many years with the Seaforth team.