--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I didn't see in his response -- the South > did a lot of trade > with Britain, so the Confederacy would have had > economic ties with > Britain. > > Julia
Good point, Julia. I should have mentioned that. In fact, the South really expected Britain to enter the war in order to get Southern cotton, which they thought the British economy needed to surivive. They vastly overestimated the British dependence on Southern cotton (the total failure of Southern strategic analysis is a topic I'd like to study some day). _But_. One reason the British were under less economic pressure to intervene than they might have been was record cotton crops in India and Egypt. Had the climate been less favorable, the economic pressure for Britain to intervene would have been much higher. Luck once again, I guess. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
