Correct title is: “How the Civil War Changed the World”
Sorry for the error.
I wished the South won.
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That's an excellent summary and linkage of international events in the 1860’s that I knew very little about.
Always exciting, even in my old age, to suddenly have a more coherent understanding of a historical period.
A while back someone at Free Republic - perhaps you - posted a long essay on the regional events surrounding the Armenian genocide during World War One.
That had the same impact on me, when a dozen things I knew in isolation suddenly combined into a clear and coherent image.
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There are disturbing parallels between their time and ours. Hopefully, the Republic will once again rise and confound its enemies.
The reference to Spain reconquering the DR is kind of ignorant.
DR has a complex history. They had a leader named Santana who, much like the Mexican guy with the similar name, was in and out of power for decades. Elected, deposed, back in power by coup or civil war, etc.
At one point the country was in such horrific shape he tried to get it annexed by US or France, who both turned him down. He then negotiated a treaty of reannexation by Spain.
The only real truth in the article in this regard is that it probably wouldn’t have happened had the US not been “busy.”
In 1869 a treaty of annexation was signed between the US and DR, but the US Senate rejected it.
In the aftermath of the war fearing takeover the Canadian colonies united in 1867 marking the birth of Canada.
This is hyperbole, one really large country dividing into two big countries is hardly falling apart.
The Union Army was the largest Army in the world followed in size by the Confederate States Army.
The CSA Army could have destroyed any European Army at the time.
Thank you.
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Kinda figured from the title the thread would get highjacked, though.
This fellow is a well-informed idiot.
These actions of European powers in the Western Hemisphere are better explained by New England’s consolidation of it’s power.
The new United States was a centralized, mercantile nation run by and for the small Northeast ‘aristocracy’.
The old United States was respected, but the new one was feared.
Of course other nations turned tail and ran.
The lpve of money and power by the north was the cause of ghe war. The same thing that controls the US govt today.
Because of the civil war and so many fatherless boys, Horatio Alger had an influence on a whole generation of young men instilling morals and entrepreneurship.............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger,_Jr.