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To: cunning_fish

U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union
http://www.voltairenet.org/U-S-Civil-War-The-US-Russian


2 posted on 09/02/2013 12:22:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was a very different Russia back then. But I think America would still have evolved in a similar fashion. A governing Monarchy far away and out of touch, looking to fill royal coffers would probably resulted in the same frustration and anger.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 12:30:54 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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There is no way Britain would have declared war on the Union. The political elite may have been pro-south, but the working classes, even those in Lancashire suffering most from the cotton famine viewed Lincoln as a hero (there is a statue of him in Manchester to this day) there would have been riots and maybe a civil insurrection in Britain itself if HM government had intervened on behalf of the slave owning South.


11 posted on 09/02/2013 2:41:45 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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