If the South had won the war?

[amadeus]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
@Thorgrimm:

Why would the British empire care for some ill-educated farmers in the CSA?

Why would the British Empire care for some ill-educated Dutch farmers in the Boer Republics?

 

[Amenhotep7]

Why would the British empire care for some ill-educated farmers in the CSA?

Cotton.

In fact, one of the strategies the CSA used was to attract Britain and other various European powers with lotsa cotton.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by Constantine
@Curt

Those were the 1812 war and the revoultion. If Britan had supported the south in the civil war. Upwards of 100 000 Yankees could gone north, the garrison of Canada at the time was about 10 000(iirc). The prevoius invasion forces were never more than 10 000 men.

not to mention the fact that less then half of the Northern "able-bodied men" at the time fought in the Civil War(source: my sister's Advanced Placement US History book).

 

[Speedo]

Why would the British empire care for some ill-educated farmers in the CSA?

We Brits still ruled the world at that point, while your country tore itself to bits.

You wouldn't have been able to beat us over here, and we saw no profit in getting involved in that Yankian 'domestic argument'.

Europe was more concerned with it's own imperial intriques.

Apparently they did.

In 1862 several european nations were very close to stepping in and pushing for a 6 month cease fire. Had it happened it would have resulted in an independent south.

The Union "victory" at Antietam and the Emancipation Proclimation stopped it at least.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Why would the British Empire care for some ill-educated Dutch farmers in the Boer Republics?

Their beards displeased us!

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by Amenhotep7


Cotton.

In fact, one of the strategies the CSA used was to attract Britain and other various European powers with lotsa cotton.

Obviously it didn't attact us enough, did it?

 

[wlievens]

Originally posted by h4ppy
The south couldn't win the war because they lost it.

How imaginative of you

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Originally posted by CurtSibling


Obviously it didn't attact us enough, did it?

Well, the Federals did adopt a policy of seizing Confederate ambassadors to Europe from the high seas before they got there.

 

[Speedo]

Cotton.

In fact, one of the strategies the CSA used was to attract Britain and other various European powers with lotsa cotton.

They realized that they needed northern wheat more than southern cotton.