Cromwellian Foreign Policy
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Cromwell's Foreign Policy: The Historical Assessment -- The Historical Context -- Historians' Approach to Cromwell's Foreign Policy -- 2 The Decision-making Process: Council, Secretary and Ambassadors -- A Break in Continuity of Personnel and Policies? -- The Council and its Committees -- The Secretaries -- The Ambassadors -- 3 Cromwell's Approach to the 'Two Crowns', 1651-4 -- Unofficial Appeals for Assistance from France and Spain, 1651-4 -- Spring 1654: The Council Debates its Choices -- The Rival Offers of May-June 1654 -- The 'Baas Affair' -- 4 The Verge of a Breach with France: July 1654-March 1655 -- Indicators of Policy, Summer 1654 -- The Second Debate on Policy -- Diplomatic Delay in Europe -- Two Threats to Peace - Acadia and Blake -- Rising French Resentment -- France and the Royalist Revolt -- 5 The Western Design -- The Background to the Expedition -- The Plans against Spanish America -- The Expedition: the Council's Choice of Target -- Inadequacies of the Expedition -- Aftermath of the Design -- 6 Leda's Mission and the Vaudois Massacre -- 7 Spain's Breach of Relations with England -- Spain's Limited Reaction -- The Declaration of War -- The French Treaty and its Implications -- 8 1656 - England Delays an Offensive Alliance with France -- First Moves towards Negotiations -- Spain's Response: Alliance with Charles II -- Lockhart and Lionne -- Naval Strategy: A Question of Priorities -- The Dispute with Portugal -- 9 The French Alliance of March 1657 -- The Preliminaries of the Alliance -- The French Treaty and Lockhart's Apologia -- The Imperial Election: Plans to Defeat the Habsburg Candidature -- 10 England, France and Dunkirk, 1657-8 -- The Removal of Potential Distractions.