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William H. Seward’s Foreign War Panacea Reconsidered - The Journal of the Civil War Era
As William H. Seward allegedly stated in 1861, “if the Lord would only give the United States an excuse for a war with England, France, or Spain, that would be the best means of reestablishing internal peace.” This is probably one of the most famous and most widely quoted sentences in Civil War diplomatic history.[1] … Read More Read More