- Joined
- May 12, 2019
- Messages
- 3,690
- Reaction score
- 2,296
November 8, 1861 - British mail packet Trent, carrying James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners to London and Paris, is halted in the Bahama Channel by the U.S. warship San Jacinto.
www.politico.com
‘Trent Affair’ catapults U.S. and Britain to brink of war, Nov. 8, 1861
The USS San Jacinto intercepted the British mail packet RMS Trent in the Caribbean and arrested two Confederate diplomats.
www.politico.com
