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| List of maps | |
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| Preface and acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| North America's emerging importance | |
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| Canada's utility for France | |
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| A global contest | |
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| Geography and policy | |
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| Statesmen and regimes | |
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| The Duke of Newcastle | |
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| The Earl of Hardwicke | |
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| William Pitt | |
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| The duc de Choiseul | |
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| Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 | |
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| Acadia and Nova Scotia | |
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| The New York frontier | |
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| Ohio: the French predicament | |
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| Ohio: the French solution | |
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| Virginia responds | |
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| A contest in India: Dupleix's project | |
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| Risking war, 1754-55 | |
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| Unreadiness of the British colonies | |
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| Britain raises the stakes | |
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| The futile negotiation | |
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| Britain and Europe | |
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| London under pressures, Versailles under illusions | |
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| War without declaration: North America, 1755 | |
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| The French navy gambles and wins | |
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| Nova Scotia | |
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| Braddock and disaster | |
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| Campaigns in northern New York | |
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| Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 | |
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| The seizure of French shipping, 1755 | |
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| The Netherlands and Hanover | |
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| Pitt and the Russian subsidy | |
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| Paralysis at Versailles | |
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| French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 | |
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| France's initial war plan | |
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| France and the Diplomatic Revolution | |
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| Admiral Byng and the French conquest of Minorca | |
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| Oswego destroyed | |
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| British and American armies | |
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| France's new war plan, 1756-57 | |
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| Pitt attains his goal | |
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| War begins on the continent | |
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| France's new war plan | |
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| The trial of Admiral Byng | |
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| Pitt, George II and Germany | |
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| The French invasion of Germany | |
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| A Hanoverian policy | |
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| Louisbourg and Lake George | |
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| The Rochefort expedition | |
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| The tide turns, 1758 | |
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| The French army in Germany: defeat and disaster | |
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| War in India: Bengal | |
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| Achieving naval superiority | |
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| Raids on the French Channel coast | |
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| France in distress | |
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| Sea power and shipping | |
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| West Africa | |
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| Changing conditions of warfare in North America | |
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| The conquest of Louisbourg | |
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| Ticonderoga and Frontenac | |
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| Mountains and Indians: the road to Fort Duquesne | |
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| The West Indies and North America, 1759 | |
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| Martinique and Guadeloupe | |
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| Niagara and Lake Champlain | |
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| Montcalm, Vaudreuil and the defence of Canada | |
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| The capture of Quebec | |
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| The British victory at sea, 1759 | |
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| Invasion threat and blockade of Brest | |
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| Lagos Bay and Quiberon Bay | |
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| France defeated: the war lost | |
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| Britain conquers afar, disunity looms at home | |
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| Choiseul's approach to peace, 1759-60 | |
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| War in India: the Coromandel Coast | |
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| The conquest of Canada, 1760 | |
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| Pitt and the German war | |
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| The Pitt-Newcastle administration undermined | |
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| The chance of peace, 1761 | |
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| Antecedents: Spain, Austria, Russia and Ferdinand's winter campaign | |
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| Choiseul's two negotiations | |
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| Belle-�ie and Westphalia | |
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| The Anglo-French negotiation | |
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| Choiseul and the lost chance of peace | |
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| Pitt's resignation and the path to war with Spain | |
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| Peacemaking, 1762: concessions before conquests | |
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| Aftermath of Pitt's resignation | |
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| The German war and the Prussian subsidy | |
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| Martinique conquered | |
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| The secret negotiation | |
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| The defence of Portugal | |
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| The capture of Havana | |
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| Peace with bitterness | |
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| Conclusion and aftermath | |
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| Fundamental causes of British military success | |
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| Why peace was delayed | |
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| The significance of 1762 | |
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| Outcomes: peace terms, finances, navies, Spain and France | |
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| Britain and North America | |
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| Abbreviations and short titles | |
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| Notes on sources | |
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| Index | |