Centuries in the past, the West Indies have been a booming set of islands the place huge fortunes have been made. by way of the overdue 1790s, the West Indies attracted four-fifths of British in a foreign country capital investments and supplied over one-eight of the government's £31.5 million overall web profit to the Treasury. those figures clarify the super numbers of naval and armed forces forces deployed to guard those worthy Caribbean territories through the French innovative Wars (1792-1802) and past. This attention-grabbing quantity through Réne Chartrand examines those forces, together with a wealth of illustrations and images and 8 complete web page color plates via Paul Chappell.
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