Great Britain and the American Civil War
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Once independence had been yielded to the American Colonies the interest of the British Government rapidly waned in affairs American. True there still remained the valued establishments in the West Indies and the less considered British possessions on the continent to the north of the United States.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Great Britain and the American Civil War
- Original publication date
- 1924
- Important events
- American Civil War
- First words
- In 1862, less than a year after he had assumed his post in London, the American Minister, Charles Francis Adams, at a time of depression and bitterness wrote to Secretary of State Seward: "That Great Britain did, in the most ... (show all)terrible moment of our domestic trial in struggling with a monstrous social evil she had earnestly professed to abhor, coldly and at once assume our inability to master it, and then become the only foreign nation steadily contributing in every indirect way possible to verify its judgment, will probably be the verdict made against her by posterity, on calm comparison of the evidence.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For nearly half a century after the American Civil War the natural sentiments of friendship, based upon ties of blood and a common heritage of literature and history and law, were distorted by bitter and exaggerated memories.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.722 — History & geography History of North America United States Civil War Era (1857-1865) Dred Scott v. Sandford, Secession of South Carolina, Panic of 1857 USA
- LCC
- E469 .A25 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 The Civil War, 1861-1865
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
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