It does make sense— when you consider that Russia, England, France, Spain, Mexico,and a few other Imperial states were interested in grabbing any pieces that might have broken away during the split.
This doesn’t get sufficient notice in these discussions.
The Confederate Army was the largest best equipped Army in the world, with one exception - the US Army.
The Confederate Army would have made mince meat of any contemporary European Army of the time. Heck if you can imagine transporting the CS Army to Europe, they could have conquered all of Europe at the time.
“It does make sense— when you consider that Russia, England, France, Spain, Mexico,and a few other Imperial states were interested in grabbing any pieces that might have broken away during the split.” - T
Still makes no sense...
Spending the lives of your people to bring a group back into your political association through war, really? (Sounds like a sociopathic ex-boyfriend.)
There is no good reason for this killing. If some other imperial power wanted to attack, and rule over that land, the “North” could have helped repel the invasion. (at a much lessor cost of lives)