Drew
Major
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2012
The so-called Ostend Manifesto, written in 1854 (IIRC), detailed U.S. plans to annex Cuba and other lands, for the expansion of slavery, naturally. The Ostend Manifesto caused an international uproar at that time.
Of course, many waived and continue to wave the bloody shirt at the South over this plot.
Oddly, Dirty Dan Sickles and his boss at that time, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, James Buchanan, actually wrote the thing, not anyone from the South.
Let's never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Of course, many waived and continue to wave the bloody shirt at the South over this plot.
Oddly, Dirty Dan Sickles and his boss at that time, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, James Buchanan, actually wrote the thing, not anyone from the South.
Let's never let the facts get in the way of a good story.