Monday, November 11, 2013

November 12, 1863---Another Civil War



NOVEMBER 12, 1863:        

Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian nationalists have been waging an armed rebellion against Tsarist Russia since January. This January Uprising will last until April 11, 1865. On this day, the United States declares its support for the Russian Empire. Russia immediately withdraws from the British-French-Russian entente that has been trying, less and less enthusiastically over time, to bring the American Civil War to a diplomatic conclusion. Britain has already ceased its “neutral” arms shipments to the Confederacy, and France is primarily concerned with propping up its puppet Mexican Empire. The entente collapses, and the last ghost of a chance that the Confederacy might benefit from foreign interventions vanishes on the wind. King Cotton has lost and President Lincoln has won the diplomatic war.