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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.

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?

The Slaver is always fact free.

‘Diogenes arrived in Athens with a slave named Manes who escaped from him shortly thereafter. With characteristic humor, Diogenes dismissed his ill fortune by saying, “If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?”’

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.

I have posted the orders before. Clearly you only read out of them what you wish to read out of them.

Montgomery, April 11, 1861 General Beauregard, Charleston:
Do not desire needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter. If Major Anderson will state the time at which, as indicated by him, he will evacuate, and agree that in the meantime he will not use his guns against us unless ours should be employed against Fort Sumter, you are thus authorized to avoid the effusion of blood. If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
L. P. Walker Sec. of War. C.S.A.

Is this going to get an apology out of you? I doubt it.

But when did facts ever stop you, Diogenes?

Physician, heal thyself!