Военная история / Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War

Название: Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War
Автор: Charles D. Ross
Издательство: University Press of Mississippi
Год: 2021
Страниц: 268
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 11 MB

On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers.