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Vergennes, foreign minister of France, worried that a war over the Bavarian succession would upset his plans against Britain. Ever since the Seven Years' War, France's Foreign Ministers, beginning with Choiseul, had followed the general idea that the independence of Britain's North American colonies would be good for France and bad for Britain, and furthermore that French attempts to recover ...
This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–83) .
Anglo-French War (1294–1303) – known as the Gascon War in English and the Guyenne War in French; Anglo-French War (1324) – known as the War of Saint-Sardos; Anglo-French War (1337–1453) – the Hundred Years' War and its peripheral conflicts, often broken up into: Edwardian War (1337–1360) Caroline War (1369–1389) Lancastrian War ...
The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, [2] and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant, an island at the mouth of the English Channel off the westernmost point of France. "Ushant" is the anglicised pronunciation of ...
This category contains historical naval battles fought as part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Pages in category "Naval battles of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783)"
The British would capture all of the other possessions without resistance in 1778; only Pondicherry was actively defended. The French governor, General Guillaume de Bellecombe, had at his disposal about 700 French troops and 400 sepoys (local Indian troops), and a city whose fortifications were in some disrepair. Pondicherry, as was the case ...
The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 is a large oil painting executed in 1783 by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the death of Major Francis Peirson at the Battle of Jersey on 6 January 1781, part of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) .
This led to the Anglo-French War (1778–1783), which Spain joined on the French side in 1779. With the rest of Europe moving towards a hostile neutrality, Great Britain would come under further pressure in 1780 when the Dutch allied with France, leading to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. Faced with military escalation, increasing diplomatic ...