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.
