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Skatolo
 2009-10-02 16:48:13
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Az oroszok tulajdonképpen attól tartottak, hogy a britek és a franciák beavatkoznak a lengyel felkelésbe. A hajóikat baráti kikötőkbe irányították, ahonnan háború esetén megtámadhatták volna a brit és francia kereskedelmi hajókat. Ugyanakkor az északiaknak jól jött, hogy egy baráti nagyhatalom támogatását látták a vizitben (akkoriban a többi nagyhatalom inkább a dél ügyét támogatta).
A ROYAL WELCOME for the RUSSIAN NAVY
By MARSHALL B. DAVIDSON
In 1915 Dr. Frank A. Golder, who had access to the official Russian records, told the true story in the American Historical Review. This had not been a “friendship” visit at all, but a secret diplomatic maneuver inspired—and that seems to be just the word—by Russia’s own problems on the Continent. A maneuver so secret, in fact, that even the Russian ambassador was surprised when the ships weighed anchor off Manhattan. The Czar’s treatment of the Poles during their tragic rebellion (“a purely domestic affair,” in familiar Russian terms) had aroused the combined opposition of England, Austria, France, and other European powers to a point where it seemed only too likely that war was inevitable. Russia’s fleet was no formidable armada but, such as it was, at the outbreak of any hostilities it surely would have been bottled up in its home ports by the enemy.
To avoid any such possibility, the best of the ships belonging to both the Atlantic and Pacific squadrons were quietly ordered to sea in June, 1863, and to head for New York and San Francisco respectively—the only convenient ports at which they might expect a welcome and where they would enjoy freedom of operation in the event war did break out abroad. From these two friendly and ample harbors, at least, they could quickly sally forth onto the trade routes to prey on British commerce, as best they could. Such depredations might be enough to persuade England, once she was aware of the situation, to think again before starting trouble over the Polish question. |
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Skatolo
2009-10-02 16:33:05
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| Azt olvastam, hogy történelmi véletlenek miatt került hasonló helyzetbe Oroszország és az USA. A dél lázadása és a lengyelek elszakadásra törő felkelése, illetve a rabszolgaság eltörlése és a jobbágyság felszabadítása voltak a közös pontok. |
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Ha kedveled azért, ha nem azért nyomj egy lájkot a Fórumért!
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