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A World on Fire, Part III: King Cotton and Confederate Foreign Relations with Great Britain

In the last two posts of the series, I examined possible reasons for British intervention in the American Civil War and Union efforts to prevent such an intervention.  This post, however, explores Confederate attempts to incur British intervention and help … Continue reading

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