5fish
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Sharpsburg Historian Hype Only----
I think there is an issue here that is why I moved this form a post to thread,,,I think we have been given hype over England entering into the war if Lee had won Sharpsburg by Historians. It was a long shot but this treaty of Lyons-Seward would have seal the deal between England and U.S. government on which side the English was siding with.
Could one say that this treaty was the nail in the Confederate's hope of a England entering the war on their side?
We speak of the Battle of Shapsburg as the deciding whether England or another European power entering the war on the Confederacy side. The Battle of Sharpesburg was Sept. 1862 but the Lyons-Seward of 1862 was ratified in April 1862...Months before Sharpsburg...
Are historians playing up the Battle of Sharpsburg to make a good story?
By Sept 1862 England had already dealt with the "Trent Affair" which did not sit well with them and by April 1862 the Lyons-Seward treaty was law giving them the right to siege and broad American ships. Stopping the Slave trade was a priority of the English government in the 1860's.
I can not see England joining the Confederacy 1862 even if Lee had won the Battle of Sharpsburg. They had more to lose between the Lyons-Seward Treaty and Northern Grain shipments to ever enter our conflict on the Confederacy side.
I think Historians are playing fast the Geo-political world of 1862 and the battle of Shapsburg. I think England by signing the Lyons-Seward treaty had already pick sides in our Civil war....
I wonder now if the hype around the Battle of Sharpsburg is nothing more the "Lost Cause Myth" at work again..........
I think there is an issue here that is why I moved this form a post to thread,,,I think we have been given hype over England entering into the war if Lee had won Sharpsburg by Historians. It was a long shot but this treaty of Lyons-Seward would have seal the deal between England and U.S. government on which side the English was siding with.
Could one say that this treaty was the nail in the Confederate's hope of a England entering the war on their side?
We speak of the Battle of Shapsburg as the deciding whether England or another European power entering the war on the Confederacy side. The Battle of Sharpesburg was Sept. 1862 but the Lyons-Seward of 1862 was ratified in April 1862...Months before Sharpsburg...
Are historians playing up the Battle of Sharpsburg to make a good story?
By Sept 1862 England had already dealt with the "Trent Affair" which did not sit well with them and by April 1862 the Lyons-Seward treaty was law giving them the right to siege and broad American ships. Stopping the Slave trade was a priority of the English government in the 1860's.
I can not see England joining the Confederacy 1862 even if Lee had won the Battle of Sharpsburg. They had more to lose between the Lyons-Seward Treaty and Northern Grain shipments to ever enter our conflict on the Confederacy side.
I think Historians are playing fast the Geo-political world of 1862 and the battle of Shapsburg. I think England by signing the Lyons-Seward treaty had already pick sides in our Civil war....
I wonder now if the hype around the Battle of Sharpsburg is nothing more the "Lost Cause Myth" at work again..........