To: nickcarraway; SAMWolf
Sounds like a great subject for the FReeper Foxhole.
13 posted on
07/14/2005 10:52:58 AM PDT by
gridlock
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To: gridlock
One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the letter that Seward drafted to send to France and England at the start of the war, just about threatening war with the US if either country interceded, via arms shipments, or trade, with the CSA. The leter was personally rewritten by Lincon, to tone it down. Seward's idea was to provoke a war with a European country, with the ideaa that the Confederacy would rejoin the Union to fight against the common enemy.
20 posted on
07/14/2005 11:27:40 AM PDT by
ken5050
To: gridlock; nickcarraway; SAMWolf
62 posted on
07/15/2005 10:06:45 AM PDT by
archy
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