Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: ‘The Ehrenbreitstein of the English Channel’

pp 1-16

Part 1 - Corsairs – the Ancien Régime and French Wars from 1689

pp 17-18

1 - Granville’s Privateers and Anglo-French Conflict in theSeventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

pp 19-33

2 - ‘Fire No Guns, Shed No Tears’: Channel Island Privateers, British Strategic Thinking and the Politics of Neutrality During the Seven Years War

pp 34-50

Part 2 - The Islands – French and British Intelligence from the Seven Years War to 1815

pp 51-52

3 - The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Strategy, 1756−82

pp 53-72

Part 3 - Territorial Waters – the Land and Sea Interface from the 17th to 20th Centuries

pp 73-74

4 - Channel Islands Territorialisation: A Challenge Between Local, National, and International Law (XVII°−XIX°)

pp 75-87

5 - Surveying the Islands: Captain Martin White RN and the Hydrography of the Islands

pp 88-106

Part 4 - Engineering Strategic Change

pp 107-108

6 - Channel ‘Harbours of Refuge’ – Their Origins and Failures

pp 109-128

Part 5 - Alderney and the Channel Islands – Naval Strategy from 1815 to 1905

pp 129-130

7 - The Channel Islands in French Naval Strategy from 1815 to 1906

pp 131-147

8 - Commanding the Channel: the Channel Islands in British Grand Strategy, 1814−1914

pp 148-170

Part 6 - Civil Societies and Anglo-French Naval Rivalry – the 19th Century to WWI

pp 171-172

9 - Hydrographic and Nautical Knowledge in French Coastal- Defence Strategy: the Case of the Channel Islands Area

pp 173-194

10 - Alderney: The Impact of National Defence

pp 195-214

Part 7 - Trade War – the Protection of Channel Islands Shipping in the Great War

pp 215-216

11 - The Channel Islands in French Naval Strategy During the First World War

pp 217-233

12 - Royal Navy Trade Defence in the English Channel During the First World War

pp 234-258

Afterword: Alderney, The Channel Islands, and the Study of History

pp 259-270

Bibliography

pp 271-283

Index

pp 284-293