American Civil War Poll.

What would Lincoln do?

  • Lincoln decides to declare war

    Votes: 28 34.6%
  • Lincoln doesn't declare war

    Votes: 40 49.4%
  • Lincoln presents declaration of war, Congress votes it down

    Votes: 13 16.0%

  • Total voters
    81
  • Poll closed .
They could try a similar deal to the one Edward I gave to the Riccardi of Lucca. In return for giving him credit and loans on demand they recieved control over custom duties and in this way the Riccardi of Lucca could ensure that they regained their loses at a steady rate while the English King would remain in the black.

In such a deal revune raised by the government through taxes or whatever wouldn't effect the repayment of loans as that would be achieved through the buying and selling or mechandice under the control of the foreign banks who the Confederates borrowed from.

I wonder if that would work in the 19th century. How well did it work for the Riccardi?

And where, out of curiosity, did you read this? Not questioning your research, just that you seem to have done a bit of reading on Longshanks and I'd like to see if there are any good sources I should look for.
 
I wonder if that would work in the 19th century. How well did it work for the Riccardi?

And where, out of curiosity, did you read this? Not questioning your research, just that you seem to have done a bit of reading on Longshanks and I'd like to see if there are any good sources I should look for.

I got the book "A Great and Terrible King - Edward I and the Forging of Britain" by Marc Morris for my Birthday and read in in three days over the past week.

And the siutation worked very well for the Riccardi of Lucca and Edward. They financed his Welsh Wars, and helped finance all his Castles in Wales, as well as his boroughs and bastides throughout England, Wales and Gascony. The relationship between them was ended when Philip IV conspired to rob Edward of his continental lands and Edwards attempted to do what Philip had done - use Crusade funds to build his own army and navy to oppose Philip - but discovered the Riccardi had invested in already and he couldn't get access to it. Edward felt they had failed him and threw they out of England.

EDIT: oh! and the Riccardi gained on average £11,000 from the deal annually. To put that in scale, Edward's first Welsh Wars cost about £28,000 and his annual income as King was approximately £10,000.
 
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I got the book "A Great and Terrible King - Edward I and the Forging of Britain" by Marc Morris for my Birthday and read in in three days over the past week.

And the siutation worked very well for the Riccardi of Lucca and Edward. They financed his Welsh Wars, and helped finance all his Castles in Wales, as well as his boroughs and bastides throughout England, Wales and Gascony. The relationship between them was ended when Philip IV conspired to rob Edward of his continental lands and Edwards attempted to do what Philip had done - use Crusade funds to build his own army and navy to oppose Philip - but discovered the Riccardi had invested in already and he couldn't get access to it. Edward felt they had failed him and threw they out of England.

EDIT: oh! and the Riccardi gained on average £11,000 from the deal annually. To put that in scale, Edward's first Welsh Wars cost about £28,000 and his annual income as King was approximately £10,000.

Very interesting, will have to get a copy of that myself - Edward was an evil bastard at times but a very good example of strong and good (for England) kingship.

And that is a pretty sweet deal. Not sure how it compares to the alternatives, but I'd certainly consider it a success - until they were kicked out obviously - on their end.
 
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