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    The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and Great Britain. The...
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  • Navy ships RMS Trent, a British steamship involved in the Trent Affair during the US Civil War SS Trent, a steamship built in 1899 Trent-class lifeboat...
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  • by Britain and France. A serious diplomatic dispute erupted over the "Trent Affair" in late 1861 but was resolved peacefully after five weeks. British intervention...
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  • "Trent Affair" in November 1861. A US Navy ship seized two Confederate diplomats (James Murray Mason and John Slidell) from the British steamer Trent....
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    Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers War based income tax Seaports blockade RMS Trent Affair Habeas Corpus suspended Emancipation Proclamation West Virginia statehood...
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  • Britain and the United States were high due to incidents such as the Trent Affair, blockade runners loaded with British arms supplies bound for the Confederacy...
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    provoked the Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, which almost led to war between the United Kingdom and the United States. Trent continued...
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  • Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers War based income tax Seaports blockade RMS Trent Affair Habeas Corpus suspended Emancipation Proclamation West Virginia statehood...
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    Civil War between 1861 and 1865, he commanded USS San Jacinto during the Trent Affair in which he stopped a Royal Mail ship and removed two Confederate diplomats...
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  • Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers War based income tax Seaports blockade RMS Trent Affair Habeas Corpus suspended Emancipation Proclamation West Virginia statehood...
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    discuss the indiscreet affair. In his final weeks, Albert suffered from pains in his back and legs. Also in November 1861, the Trent Affair—the forcible removal...
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    Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the...
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    1861 "Trent Affair," a diplomatic controversy involving the U.S. Navy's removal of Confederate commissioners from the British mail-steamer, RMS Trent. On...
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  • with the Confederacy after the Trent Affair. In our timeline, cooler heads prevailed after the seizure of the RMS Trent by Union forces, with the British...
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    between the U.S. and Britain over the Trent affair, which began when U.S. Navy personnel boarded the British ship Trent and seized two Confederate diplomats...
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    Holyhead to Stafford in 1862, while conveying despatches relating to the Trent Affair. The Lady of the Lake class was the second type of locomotive designed...
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    Continental power following the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Lyons resolved the Trent Affair during the American Civil War; and contributed to the Special Relationship...
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    captain of James Adger began the legal questions that would be used in the Trent Affair by loudly speaking of his mission while intoxicated on brandy. Earl Russell...
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    such as the Aroostook War in 1838–39, the Pig War in 1859, and the Trent Affair in 1861. After the abdication of Napoleon in April 1814, British public...
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  • of the film adaptation of the novel. 1862 by Robert Conroy. After the Trent Affair, the United Kingdom joins the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy...
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    Slidell of Louisiana, who was later involved in the American Civil War's Trent Affair. Mackenzie was the captain of USS Somers when it became the only US Navy...
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    granted with all charges against McNulty dropped. As every detail of the affair was covered by newspapers around the country, Stanton's name was featured...
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    of that regiment in 1852. In March 1862, with the tensions from the Trent Affair, he raised the 9th Battalion Volunteer Rifles, Quebec Voltigeurs in Quebec...
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    Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (category British Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs)
    The Trent Affair in November 1861 produced public outrage in Britain and a diplomatic crisis. A U.S. Navy warship stopped the British steamer Trent and...
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    portal War of 1812 Aroostook War (1838–1839) Pig War (1859) Trent Affair (1861) Chesapeake Affair (1863) Fenian raids (1866-71) Fort Whoop-Up (1869-74) Annexation...
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  • the name HMS Trent, after the River Trent: HMS Trent (1757) was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1757 and sold in 1764. HMS Trent (1796) was a...
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    Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers War based income tax Seaports blockade RMS Trent Affair Habeas Corpus suspended Emancipation Proclamation West Virginia statehood...
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