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Breaking the blockade : the bahamas during the civil war /
"On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have-and what England and other foreign countries wanted-was cotton and tobacco. Industrious...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2021]
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| Series: | Mississippi scholarship online.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Two arrivals
- The stage is set. George Trenholm sees the future ; Heyliger arrives
- Interlude: why Nassau? "This remote western maritime colony" ; The Bay Street boys
- The great carnival. Putting the pieces in place ; The lions of the Royal Victoria ; Yellow Jack ; A new consul ; Living for the hour ; Trouble in New York
- The curtain falls. "It is rather sickly here" ; "Blockade-running from this port has ceased" ; Like a town sacked and burned by the enemy.