Canada and The American Civil War Episode 1
The impact of the long, violent, and consequential American Civil War looms large over the United States. But it wasn’t just America that was impacted. In this series, I tell the epic story of Canada’s role in the American Civil War.
While still under British control, Canada sent 40,000 of it’s native children to fight in the war, became a haven for Confederate spies, and was caught in the middle of some of the most tense times in the history Anglo-American relations.
The United States and Britain nearly went to war multiple times during the conflict. In the final episode of this series, I will even show how the Civil War is even one of the primary reasons that Canada became its own nation.
Through four episodes I will discuss (e1) how and why Canada was involved in the war, (e2) the horrible British-American relationship during the war and how it almost consumed Canada in war, (e3) the goals and operations of the vast Confederate spy network based in Canada, and (e4) the vital effect that the American Civil War had on Canada becoming an independent nation.
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