![]() ![]() The British Empire’s efforts to dismantle the United States during the Civil War have been well documented in the articles of Matthew Ehret. If the two other most powerful nations in the world – the British and French Empires – chose to intervene in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, as they openly moved towards doing during the high-tide of their war during 1862, the act would be punished. The two squadrons were dispatched by Tsar Alexander II, all his life a great and true friend of the United States, to protect the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of North America. Innumerable parades, dance balls and dinners were organized, many by the visiting Russians themselves. The streets of San Francisco and New York teemed with Russian officers and sailors in their bright uniforms in 1863 and they were social successes too. ![]() commerce and financial power on the East and the new West Coast, would be an attack on Russia too. Any British or French naval attack on New York or San Francisco, the two great centers of U.S. The message the Russian forces sent was unmistakable. Navy’s tiny Pacific Squadron was weak at the time and Confederate commerce raiders indulgently encouraged by Britain roamed the Atlantic. They were there to defend the United States from foreign invasion – not to threaten it and they brilliantly succeeded in their tasks. But the circumstances were slightly different. Half a century earlier, thousands of Imperial Russian Navy sailors and their officers flooded the cities of San Francisco and New York. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivostok on the Pacific side. Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. ![]()
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