** What was the British stake in the Civil War?
Get back for the War of 1812
Need for Southern cotton
British banks had investments in both the North and South
** Who wanted there to be a war?
Radical Republicans
Britain
Irish
Southern Conservatives
** The French wanted war
They had an interest in taking over Mexico and with a war in the United States this would take away a major problem for them.
--Old Secesh
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