PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wanner, Michal
TI  - The Struggle of European Powers in the Indian Ocean during the American War of Independence 1778-1783
DP  - 2015 Jun 11
TA  - Historica Olomucensia
PG  - 69--97
VI  - 48
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ho.2015.003
IS  - 18039561
AB  - In the beginning of the study the author deals with a specification of Asian battlefields during the American War of Independence and shows various approaches to understanding this conflict and its relationship with other conflicts in Asia in the observed period. Then, the crucial information about battle events on land and also naval Asian battlefields are presented. It is stated that the evaluation of results is used to be marked by the perspective of British-French fight in India. However, the battle, which is followed, is not only a component in the chain of British-French battles for India but a conflict of which results seemed to have the larger context. Furthermore, consequences of the war for a financial situation of the British East India Company as well as a definitive stabilization of a mutual relation between the British East India Company and the British state are underlined. Afterwards, it is emphasized how significant was a character of the war for the European trade in Asia (the decline of a Dutch and also French position, the entrance of new competitors into this trade) and for the future development of the whole Indian subcontinent (the failure of the last trial to establish a wide anti-English coalition).