The History Chap Podcast
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The History Chap Podcast
149: How Queen Victoria's Husband Averted US-British War in 1861
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Chris Green
The Trent Affair, in 1861 during the American Civil war, when a Union warship boarded a British mail ship and seized Confederate envoys, brought Britain and the USA to the very brink of war.
It was only the intervention by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, that helped pull the two nations back from the abyss.
So, What actually happened in the Trent Affair in 1861? How close did the USA and Great Britain really come to fighting each other? And, exactly how did Prince Albert help avert that war?
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