In the shadow of the Alabama : the British Foreign Office and the American Civil War /

This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the Southern States during the American Civil War. As a consequence, the CSS Alabama narrowly escaped seizure by the British Governm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, Renata Eley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2015]
Temas:
Buckley, Victor, > 1838-1882.
Buckley, Victor, > 1838-1882
Great Britain. > Foreign Office > History > 19th century.
Alabama (Screw sloop)
Great Britain. > Foreign Office
1800-1899
Diplomatic relations
United States > Foreign relations > 1861-1865.
United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Great Britain
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family and Foreign Office
  • Guns, ships, and Victorian values
  • The honourable members for the United States
  • Money will accomplish anything in England
  • Our friend in the Foreign Office
  • Choice Foreign Office fiction
  • The Enrica is launched and the Florida is freed
  • Intended for a ship of war
  • Information from a private and most reliable source
  • Everlasting infamy
  • Humble submission to yankee bullying
  • War-torn waters
  • The war is a thing of the past
  • Black friday
  • "Little Hudson"
  • Britain is condemned out of her own mouth
  • Prospects for a solution
  • The massive grievance
  • The Foreign Office thief
  • Arthur Conan Doyle's revelations.

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