unprincipled peter
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Doesn't matter how the Crimean War gets delayed, but if it overlaps the civil war, what effect does this have? I'm guessing the US benefited from sales of basic goods (cotton/foods/etc) during crimean war, which may not be available to the Europeans (using the term loosely to include all combatants). The US North imported lots of rifles/military stock from the Crimean combatants. I'm guessing the source dries up if England is sending it's rifles to Crimea. How does this affect the civil war? The North barely held on OTL. take away a huge chunk of their weapons, I'm guessing there's a butterfly.