This book focuses on British defence policy in the period between theSeven Years' War and French intervention in the AmericanRevolution. It is a study of coercive diplomacy and of the influence ofdefence considerations in foreign policy, particularly as applied tothe naval relationship between Britain and Fance at the outbreak of theAmerican Revolution -- a subject of considerable significance inunderstanding how American independence was made possible.
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