Bloomsbury Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British Transport Organization (History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

About the Author David Syrett was Distinguished Professor of History at Queen's College, City University of New York.' Product Description Showing the complex interaction of strategy, logistics, administration, and economics, Syretts pioneering text brings to light some basic causes for the ultimate failure of the British war effort during the American War of Independence. This war effort was fatally compromised by the British need to support a great army and a large naval force in the western hemisphere while at the same time facing a coalition of maritime powers on the European continent.