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Suffren Versus Hughes

Autor Quintin Barry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2024

Recomandăm Suffren Versus Hughes în special studenților la istorie militară, cercetătorilor axați pe secolul al XVIII-lea și pasionaților de jocuri de strategie navală care caută o documentare riguroasă a campaniilor din Oceanul Indian. Considerăm că această lucrare a autorului Quintin Barry completează esențial peisajul istoriografic, fiind volumul final al unei trilogii ce include „Crisis at the Chesapeake” și „From Ushant to Gibraltar”. Textul explorează o confruntare mai puțin cunoscută, dar vitală pentru menținerea poziției Marii Britanii în India în contextul Războiului de Independență al Americii. Analiza se concentrează pe duelul strategic dintre doi comandanți cu temperamente opuse: Sir Edward Hughes, reprezentantul riguros al tradiției Royal Navy, și Pierre-André de Suffren, un amiral francez atipic, definit prin agresivitate și inovație tactică. Putem observa cum autorul nu se limitează la descrierea celor cinci bătălii navale, ci integrează dificultățile logistice imense — operarea la mii de kilometri de casă, comunicarea lentă și necesitatea reparațiilor capitale în lipsa unor baze adecvate. Găsim aici o perspectivă echilibrată asupra modului în care politica dinastică din India și interesele economice ale companiilor coloniale au modelat deciziile militare. Lucrarea acoperă o arie tematică similară cu Armies and Wars of the French East India Companies 1664-1770, dar cu o abordare mult mai focalizată pe tactica navală pură și pe psihologia comandanților în timpul conflictului direct, spre deosebire de viziunea administrativă și colonială mai largă a lui Rene Chartrand. Stilul este precis, ancorat în date factuale, oferind o claritate necesară asupra unei campanii unde eficiența britanică s-a ciocnit cu îndrăzneala franceză.

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ISBN-13: 9781804513392
ISBN-10: 1804513393
Pagini: 126
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: HELION & COMPANY

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Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a logisticii și tacticii navale din secolul al XVIII-lea. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru cei care doresc să descopere cum personalitatea unui lider poate influența cursul istoriei, chiar și în absența unei victorii decisive pe câmpul de luptă. Cartea oferă detalii tehnice și context politic esențial pentru orice bibliotecă de istorie militară navală.


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"Well written, well researched, and well done. Any one of the Suffren vs. Hughes battles would make for a good tabletop naval battle." - Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Suffren versus Hughes describes the fascinating but relatively little-known naval campaign between Britain and France for mastery of the Indian Ocean in the closing years of the War of American Independence. It is effectively the third volume of a trilogy recording the history of the Royal Navy during this period, the earlier volumes being Crisis at the Chesapeake (2021) and From Ushant to Gibraltar (2022). The contest for control of the sea was crucial to the maintenance of Britain's position in India. It was played out against the political, economic and military background created by the impact of the British East India Company upon the complex system of the various dynasties that ruled India, and which themselves competed with each other for advantage. Britain and France sent out squadrons of ships of the line which were at various times nearly equal in strength. In the course of their hard-fought campaign, these fought five battles, none of which produced the decisive victory which each sought. This campaign was remarkable not just for the strategic and tactical questions which it raised, but also for the light it shed on the characters and abilities of the respective commanders. Sir Edward Hughes and Pierre-André de Suffren were very different men, who brought to their commands contrasting approaches to the particular problems of naval warfare of the eighteenth century. Hughes was a very typical product of the traditions of the Royal Navy, a patient and careful exponent of all that he had learned from his training and experience. Suffren, on the other hand, was untypical of French admirals of the period; he was bold, aggressive and innovative, and impatient of the stately conventions of sea battles of the period. Each of them had extremely difficult problems to overcome, in addition to the fact that they were operating many thousands of miles from home, which meant that orders reached them months after they were first issued. Hughes faced considerable difficulties in his relationship with the various presidencies of the East India Company which ruled British India at this time. Suffren, on the other hand, who conducted the campaign for the most part without any effective base, was frequently badly let down by some of his captains, while the performance of his squadron demonstrated that the French navy was far less efficient than the British. For both men, a central problem was obtaining supplies, as well as that of effecting repairs to their ships some of which were extremely badly damaged during the battles which they fought. The two men had a very considerable respect for each other. However, while the life and career of Suffren has generated a huge literature, principally among French historians, that of Hughes has passed relatively unnoticed. Both men, though, deserved well of their countrymen for what they were able to achieve.