TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smelser,Marshall
AU  - Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg,Va)
TI  - The campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759: a study of amphibious warfare
T2  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
SN  - 9781469600628
AV  - F2151 .C367 1955
PY  - 1955///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "Bibliographical note": pages 199-201; Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; I. THE CONTENTIOUS EMPIRES; 1. The age of power; 2. The economics of colonialism; 3. The North American impasse; 4. To war; II. DESIGN FOR FIGHTING; 1. The purposes of the campaign; 2. The force and its matériel; III. TRADE-WIND PASSAGE; 1. Departure; 2. Rendezvous; IV. INHOSPITABLE MARTINIQUE; 1. A Fort Royale reception; 2. Withdrawal from Fort Royale Bay; 3. A look into St. Pierre; V. GUADELOUPE: BASSE TERRE; 1. The island of Guadeloupe; 2. The bombardment of Basse Terre; 3. Hopson's choice: To do nothing; 4. The Marines and the Black Watch at Fort Louis5. Barrington, commander in chief; VI. GUADELOUPE: GRAND TERRE; 1. The fleet withdraws; 2. Grand Terre disorganized; VII. GUADELOUPE: CAPESTERRE; 1. Clavering's advance; 2. Armistice and capitulation; 3. Beauharnois achieves an anticlimax; VIII. CONSOLIDATION; 1. Loose ends; 2. Consolidation and departure; 3. ""The Recompence of Virtue""; IX. THE CAMPAIGN AS A WORK OF ART; 1. The British exercise of command; 2. The defense of the islands; 3. Significance; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; St; u; v; w; y; 2; b
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