I'm sorry if you don't like hearing about this, but facts are facts. It was those warships arriving that triggered the bombardment of Sumter. There were no plans to attack that fort until those warships materialized at the entrance to Charleston harbor.
roflol. Please stick to the facts.
Facts... The seven State confederacy started the war.
Even a blind mole knows that.
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“In the cabinet meeting, Toombs warned Davis that firing on Fort Sumter would inaugurate the Civil War.
“Mr. President, at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. The firing upon that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen.” [Robert Toombs to Jefferson Davis, quoted in W. A. Swanberg, _First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter,_ p. 286]”
No, your spreading lies and disinformation that has been disproved countless times on other threads. Your just too thick headed to realize it.
The war starts when confederates plotted to kill Lincoln when he transferred trains at the Baltimore train station one his way to his first inauguration. Pinkerton and others stopped the assassination. Killing the president to overthrow the election is sedition and an act of war.
So far as I have been able to find out, the reduction of the fort was ordered well before the relief ships arrived at Charleston.
But when did facts ever stop you, Diogenes?