The Trent Affair: British packet steamer Trent stopped by United States warship in international waters

Cuándo

8 nov 1861

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

44.10° N, 77.57° W

Situado en: river named in the title of the event it links, Trent.

The Trent Affair: British packet steamer Trent stopped by United States warship in international waters. Two Confederate diplomats taken off and imprisoned in Boston.

1861 U.S./U.K. diplomatic incident

The Trent Affair was a diplomatic incident in 1861 during the American Civil War that threatened a war between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy captured two Confederate envoys from a British Royal Mail steamer; the British government protested vigorously.

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