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The Confederates did manage to purchase warships from neutral Britain and use them to destroy much of the U.S. merchant marine. Britain violated its neutrality in so doing. The US held Britain accountable after the war, and arbitration gave the US a large cash award of $15 million for the damage done.
The Confederates did manage to purchase warships from neutral Britain and use them to destroy much of the U.S. merchant marine. Britain violated its neutrality in so doing. The US held Britain accountable after the war, and arbitration gave the US a large cash award of $15 million for the damage done.
===Russian fleets protect American shores===
Just as British-sponsored battles were being waged against the Union from the southern [[slave power]], in [[Canada]], over 10,000 British troops were stationed with orders to prepare for a full invasion of the USA, while in [[Mexico]], [[Napoleon III]]'s forces were stationed under Emperor Maximilian prepared to invade in support of the Confederacy from the South.
As the world watched with bated breath, Russian Ambassador to the United States Eduard de Stoeckl reported to Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Gorchakov:
{{Cquote|The disintegration of the United States as a nation would from our point of view be something to be deplored. The American Confederation has acted as a counterpoise to British power and in this sense, its continued existence constitutes an important element in the balance of power.}}
He continued that he desired "the preservation of the American Union as an indivisible nation."
The outcome of the Civil War could have been much different had it not been for Czar [[Alexander II]]'s deployment of the Russian navy to the [[California]] and [[Atlantic]] coasts of America in 1863, which kept British and French forces from assisting the Confederacy in open [[war]]fare against [[Lincoln]]. The Russian soldiers were celebrated by crowds of thousands in [[San Francisco]] and [[New York City]] during the height of the American Civil War.
Later describing his motive, Czar Alexander II said:
{{Cquote|In the Autumn of 1862, the governments of France and [[Great Britain]] proposed to Russia, in a formal but not in an official way, the joint recognition by [[Europe]]an powers of the independence of the [[Confederate States of America]]. My immediate answer was: 'I will not cooperate in such action; and I will not acquiesce. On the contrary, I shall accept the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by France and Great Britain as a ''casus belli'' for Russia. And in order that the [[government]]s of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat; I will send a [[Pacific]] fleet to San Francisco and an Atlantic fleet to New York…
All this I did because of [[love]] for my own dear Russia… I acted thus because I understood that Russia would have a more serious task to perform if the American Republic, with advanced industrial development were broken up and Great Britain should be left in control of most branches of modern industrial development.<ref>[https://badlands.substack.com/p/how-canada-was-created-to-block-us How Canada Was Created to Block US-Russian Cooperation], MATTHEW EHRET, JUL 01, 2024. badlands.substack.com}}
==Late 19th Century==
==Late 19th Century==