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- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
What independence could they have achieved? They would have been a military dependency of France, and a financial dependency of Britain. Meanwhile the Irish would have continued to immigrate to the US and take the mining and manufacturing jobs. US iron and steel jobs would continue to draw English managers and Polish iron workers.
The US was already wired for telegraph communication by the end of the war. By 1864 it had a domestic firearms industry. Its naval bases on both coasts could turn out whatever ships were needed, and they were only going to get faster, with heavier guns.
Put together the US mining capacity and dynamite, and trenching speeds up.
Eventually the US builds temporary rail yards at the front, full of heavy railroad guns.
The Confederacy was actually lucky that they did not achieve independence. Because it may very well have led to the 1st World War being fought between Germany and France, in North America.
The US was already wired for telegraph communication by the end of the war. By 1864 it had a domestic firearms industry. Its naval bases on both coasts could turn out whatever ships were needed, and they were only going to get faster, with heavier guns.
Put together the US mining capacity and dynamite, and trenching speeds up.
Eventually the US builds temporary rail yards at the front, full of heavy railroad guns.
The Confederacy was actually lucky that they did not achieve independence. Because it may very well have led to the 1st World War being fought between Germany and France, in North America.