Yet more about the KoL.
In the 1880's, there were no amicable relations between Great Britain, the CSA and The Kingdom of Louisiana. While London and Saint Louis did maintain embassies in each other's countries, Political relations between the KoL and the CSA were very bad indeed. The cause of this was indeed, still slavery. In the CSA, the fact that slavery had been abolished in all of those areas in the deep south, formerly Confederate but now annexed by the KoL did not sit well, and Northerners in New York and Pennsylvania, especially those who had already been previously "Copperheads" opposed to the war in the first place, also rapid adopted racist attitudes.
Slaves, on the other hand, tended to swarm West, across the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers into Louisiana in droves, and in this case, there was no Dred Scott decision or any kind of extradition treaty that allowed the former owners of "escaped" slaves any hope of recovering "their" slaves.
Attitudes hardened quickly. and a sort of arms race and cold war quickly developed. A large. professional, permenant standing army was a feature of Confederate society from that time onward, a fact which prompted the KoL to also maintain an even larger, if less militarist army.
In the KoL, emigration from both Asia and Europe continually increased the population and industrial developement in Texas, California, Ohio and Illionios outstripped the gains in manufacturing in the CSA by a wide margin.
The RLN was soon built into a relatively powerful force, with 16 Battleships in the Pacific and a further 8 in the Gulf of Mexico. The CSA, with considerable RN help had 11 Battleships, based in Norfolk, and had the backup of the Halifax and Boston based "American Squadron" of the RN, a further ten ships.
Had not the British expended considerable energy and persistance in discouraging the would be filibustering activities of the Confederates, renewed hostilities may well have been avoided into at least the early XXth Century!
It was probably the KoL ambition to build a canal, in Panama which became the spark for renuwed war in North America!
In the 1880's, there were no amicable relations between Great Britain, the CSA and The Kingdom of Louisiana. While London and Saint Louis did maintain embassies in each other's countries, Political relations between the KoL and the CSA were very bad indeed. The cause of this was indeed, still slavery. In the CSA, the fact that slavery had been abolished in all of those areas in the deep south, formerly Confederate but now annexed by the KoL did not sit well, and Northerners in New York and Pennsylvania, especially those who had already been previously "Copperheads" opposed to the war in the first place, also rapid adopted racist attitudes.
Slaves, on the other hand, tended to swarm West, across the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers into Louisiana in droves, and in this case, there was no Dred Scott decision or any kind of extradition treaty that allowed the former owners of "escaped" slaves any hope of recovering "their" slaves.
Attitudes hardened quickly. and a sort of arms race and cold war quickly developed. A large. professional, permenant standing army was a feature of Confederate society from that time onward, a fact which prompted the KoL to also maintain an even larger, if less militarist army.
In the KoL, emigration from both Asia and Europe continually increased the population and industrial developement in Texas, California, Ohio and Illionios outstripped the gains in manufacturing in the CSA by a wide margin.
The RLN was soon built into a relatively powerful force, with 16 Battleships in the Pacific and a further 8 in the Gulf of Mexico. The CSA, with considerable RN help had 11 Battleships, based in Norfolk, and had the backup of the Halifax and Boston based "American Squadron" of the RN, a further ten ships.
Had not the British expended considerable energy and persistance in discouraging the would be filibustering activities of the Confederates, renewed hostilities may well have been avoided into at least the early XXth Century!
It was probably the KoL ambition to build a canal, in Panama which became the spark for renuwed war in North America!