"The Alabama Claims, 1862–1872" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 May 2019 9:41 p.m. PST |
"The Alabama claims were a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Great Britain that arose out of the U.S. Civil War. The peaceful resolution of these claims seven years after the war ended set an important precedent for solving serious international disputes through arbitration, and laid the foundation for greatly improved relations between Britain and the United States. The controversy began when Confederate agents contracted for warships from British boatyards. Disguised as merchant vessels during their construction in order to circumvent British neutrality laws, the craft were actually intended as commerce raiders. The most successful of these cruisers was the Alabama, which was launched on July 29, 1862. It captured 58 Northern merchant ships before it was sunk in June 1864 by a U.S. warship off the coast of France. In addition to the Alabama, other British-built ships in the Confederate Navy included the Florida, Georgia, Rappahannock, and Shenandoah. Together, they sank more than 150 Northern ships and impelled much of the U.S. merchant marine to adopt foreign registry. The damage to Northern shipping would have been even worse had not fervent protests from the U.S. Government persuaded British and French officials to seize additional ships intended for the Confederacy. Most famously, on September 3, 1863, the British Government impounded two ironclad, steam-driven "Laird rams" that Confederate agent James D. Bulloch had surreptitiously arranged to be built at a shipyard in Liverpool…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 28 May 2019 6:03 p.m. PST |
Somehow this event previously escaped my attention. After having read up on it, the British should have snubbed the offer and made it clear that since the Union had instigated the war then they had to accept the consequences of what war means. Sadly, the British allowed themselves to be suckered into paying a reduced amount. |
Tango01 | 30 May 2019 12:43 p.m. PST |
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