How could this come to be and what would be the lasting effects? An earlier Great Rapproachment is a given, but what other butterflies will it cause?
Rhett becomes President and begins working to re-establish the slave trade, attacking British ships that seek to enforce it and disregard "Southron rights". Instant casus belli, instant end of the CSA in the Anglo-American/Confederate War.![]()
Of course this will lead to more post war resentment than OTL as the "Lost Cause Movement" will blame the British and say we woulda whipped the dammyankees if it weren't for the Limeys
Foreign intervention in a civil war always triggers resentment
Of course you are 100% correct, just going to throw that out and say 60-80 years down the road things will be interesting in either caseOf course this would also hold true for the UK-CSA alliance scenario, with the Union preferring to blame the British as opposed to seeing any flaws in how it conducted the war.
Given the electoral realities of the time, impossible. The upper reaches of the British ruling classes were overwhelmingly pro confederate.
Of course this would also hold true for the UK-CSA alliance scenario, with the Union preferring to blame the British as opposed to seeing any flaws in how it conducted the war.