Mackesy P. The War for America, 1775-1783

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title: The War for America : 1775-1783

author: Mackesy, Piers.

publisher: University of Nebraska Press

isbn10 | asin: 0803281927

print isbn13: 9780803281929

ebook isbn13: 9780585347219

language: English

subject United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Great

Britain--History--1760-1789.

publication date: 1993

lcc: E208.M14 1992eb

ddc: 973.3

subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Great

Britain--History--1760-1789.

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The War for America 17751783

Piers Mackesy

Introduction to the Bison Book Edition

by John Shy

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Manufactured in the United States of America

First Bison Book printing: 1993

Most recent printing indicated by the last digit below:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mackesy, Piers.

The war for America, 17751783 / Piers Mackesy.

p. cm.

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8032-8192-7 (pbk.)

1. United StatesHistoryRevolution, 17751783. 2. Great Britain

History17601789. I. Title.

E208.M14 1992

973.3DC20

92-37789

CIP

Reprinted by arrangement with Piers Mackesy

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FOR MY GRANDMOTHER

NORAH C. E. COOK

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CON TENTS

Introduction to the Bison Book Edition xiii

Preface: The Servants of Kronos xxiii

Office-Holders in the Cabinet, 177583

xxviiixxix

List of Abbreviations

xxx

Introduction: A Government at War 1

1. And Great Bellona Smiles

2. A War of the Ancien 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 17757

I. Lord Dartmouth's War 27

1. 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 of Reconquest

III. The Great Concentration 61

1. The Timetable

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2. Shipping the Supplies

3. A Bid for Decision

IV. The Arrested Offensive 73

1. 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

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Part Two: The World War 1778

VI. Philadelphia and Saratoga 121

1. Howe and Burgoyne

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. Keppel and the Channel Fleet

5. The Campaign in the Channel

XI. Crisis in America 212

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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 17789

XIII. The Cracks in the Foundations 237

1. The Keppel 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

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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 177980

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. Cornwallis 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

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3. Repulse of the Opposition

Part Five: Catastrophe 17801

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

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