What a funny name the Quasi-War is.
However, it was a very real war, the one between France and the United States at the very end of the 18th century.
A little-known war, at least largely on the French side.
Because on the other side of the Atlantic, many historians have focused on these merciless naval combats, at a time when the fifteen states of the United States and their four million inhabitants were consolidating a process of 'unification.
All the more reason to salute the work of Éric Schnakenburg, professor of modern history at Nantes-Université.
It aims as much to tell the story of a battle on the seas as the emergence of the young American power, forgetting neither the diplomatic backstage nor the immersion in revolutionary France.
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The Quasi-War is all the more surprising as it follows the War of Independence (1775-1782) during which the two countries fought together against Great Britain.
But too much tension builds up quickly...
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