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Harper's Weekly Article from Harper's Weekly in January, 1862 speaking about the Trent Affair ... Adams in Regard to the Trent Affair The legation in London sends a letter to the Secretary of State.
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www.civilwarhome.com/trent.htm
www.civilwarhome.com/trent.htm
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News From The Past; This is how the Washington Star reported the "Trent Affair" in November-December 1861 ... (whose arrival we announced yesterday), the following has been received: The excitement relative to the Trent affair continued abated (sic). The stock market was more heavy and unsettled than ever.
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www.civilwarhome.com/washstartrent.htm
www.civilwarhome.com/washstartrent.htm
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However, the Trent affair confirmed that the British were willing to defend their position of neutrality in the American Civil War, a position that both the Union and the Confederacy had hoped to change.
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www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cw/92452.htm
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Trent Affair "One War At A Time" November 8, 186 ... "You may stand for this but damned if I will!" exploded Lord Palmerston, prime minister of Britain, in outrage over the seizing of two Confederate envoys from the British steamer Trent by a U.S. Navy warship commanded by Capt.
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This civil war newspaper has a story and picture of the Capture of Rebel Commissioners Slidell and Mason and the Trent Affair ... on board the British mail steamer Trent, in the Bahamas Channel, by Commodore Wilkes of the United States sloop of war San Jacinto. The transaction was thus described by Captain Taylor,
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www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/nove...
www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/trent-affair.htm
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The Trent Affair of 1861 is a significant historical event for many reasons. At the beginning of the Civil War, the captain of a United States warship returning from Cuba stopped a British ship that had two Confederate diplomats on board.
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www.scarborough.k12.me.us/high/projects/civilwar/1861tr...
www.scarborough.k12.me.us/high/projects/civilwar/1861trent.htm
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The Trent Affair of 1861 ... One of these "almost forgotten" episodes is the Trent Affair, which occurred during the first year of the American Civil War, and almost embroiled Canada in the American Civil War. ... This precipitated the "Trent Affair". The British Government and people were enraged by this violation of the laws...
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www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/Canada/can_trent.htm
www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/Canada/can_trent.htm
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The Confederacy quickly realized that ministers had to be sent to Europe, especially England and France, in order to get diplomatic recognition and military assistance. Jefferson Davis dispatched ... In Havana they boarded a British steamship, the Trent, were they were to go to St. Thomas and board another ship to Europe.
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The following day Palmerston ordered the English ambassador to America, Lyons, to make three demands of the United States government that were to be met in seven days, if not he was to break off relations and return ... The demands were: ... The British, not wanting to possibly start a war before the Union had a chance to respond,
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spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his312/ckinsell/ttadip.htm
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