01-12-2025, 03:45 PM
(01-12-2025, 03:23 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote:
(01-12-2025, 03:23 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: I take exception to your phrasing of "Southeastern tribes had vacated". They were forced off their land by the government and that shows you know little of the history of that area and period.You mean you take advantage of my not having stated the whole story in order to slickly imply I don't know it.
(01-12-2025, 03:23 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: England and France officially stayed neutral but unofficially France supported the South. How exactly was this holding the Americans responsible for anything?What if the war had ended in 1862 because of lack of weapons?
(01-12-2025, 03:23 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: Again what does any of your reasoning have to do with the American Civil War?The European and South American nations whose trade was affected may have wanted to goad the South into a war in order to force the North to fight them and then keep an eye on them.
Whether or not France, it is easy to speculate that if some foreign power felt this way, they may have sold weapons to the South so the war would go on.