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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
nd thus forever bind her over to keep the peace in relation to neutrals, and so acknowledge that she has been wrong for sixty years. For more than a hundred years Great Britain had denied the sanctity of a neutral ship, when her interests seemed to require its violation. That Power had acquired full supremacy of the seas at the middle of the last century, and Thompson had written that offering to British pride, the song of Rule Britannia, boastingly asserting that--When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung the strain-- Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves I Britons never shall be slaves! Conscious of its might, Great Britain made a new law of nations, for its own benefit, in 1756. Frederick the Great of Prussia had declared that the goods of an enemy cannot be taken from on board the ships of a friend. A British orderin Council was immediately issued, declaring the reverse of this t