Yeah. The typical Brit strategy of divide and conquer but they saw early on the South had no chance of winning and Britain certainly had no intention of sending troops. They decided to cut their losses quick.
What they really wanted was “our cotton!”
***The typical Brit strategy of divide and conquer***
Fifteen years earlier, the Brits recognized TEXAS as an independent nation, then the Brits tried to forge an alliance between Britain, Canada, Mexico and Texas against the USA.
This so shocked the Texans that they immediately applied to the USA to become a state, and made the US government aware that the back door to the USA was wide open!
The USA sent troops to that part of Texas that Britain recognized, Mexico opened fire and Ft Brown was born along with the Mexican War.