At 07:17 PM 3/1/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
>I had thought that most European sympathies lay with the
>North, given European distaste for slavery, and that the
>North did actually get some European aid? What nation(s)
>considered intervening on the South's side?
You forget the role rivalries in this situation, and particularly the fact
that the United States and United Kingdom are not far removed from having
fought two wars with each other.
For example, my understanding is that in the early days of the First World
War, American sympathies were largely with the Germans. Likewise, the
Irish also generally sympathized with the Germans in the World Wars in
large part because they hated the British.
JDG
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