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  1. You might want to check out The French Navy and the Seven Years War by Jonathan Dull. You're not going to get a lot of guns and bugles type accounts of fleet battles. If it spends a LOT of time covering the political side of the war and the land campaigns in Hanover. However, it does provide a lot of context that sets up De Grasse's success during the American Revolution. It covers the struggles the French Navy had in acquiring the men and material necessary for sustained fleet operations as well as the effects of disease on ce rew strengths. It also provides enough about French naval deployments for you to draw your own conclusions (I decided that the French would have been better served concentrating everything in one theater as a means of strengthening their negotiating position.) In short, weak on detailed ship-on-ship actions but definitely worth it given the contextual background on the mid-18th Century
  2. In full disclosure, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and do not have specific examples of inaccuracies. However, it worth noting that my advising professor for my Master's thesis recommended that I NOT use 6 Frigates as a source. Apparently some of Toll's early work had some academic problems. Basically, go into the book with some caution. As to the original question, I've really enjoyed the informed discussion throughout these forums. I've learned quite a bit. Though I would put forward that perhaps this discussion has been a little to focused on the technical nature of which ship can throw a similar weight of iron to the U.S.S. Constitution. Isn't 'the weather gauge' also a viable answer? The skilled commander of a 32-gun ship with a crack crew and the weather gauge should be able to beat the Constitution. If not, I'm going to be dissapointed.
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