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Diplomacy: Britain vs America #11
🕑 Added 2023-04-17 05:02:00 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
In this penultimate episode of our series, we learn how the Earl of Aberdeen managed to cajole, manipulate, persuade and basically leverage every trick in the book to convince Britons and his peers that national honour was not at stake in Oregon, and thus, not worth war with America. Aberdeen's quest paid off with the Oregon Treaty, but in domestic politics, storm clouds threatened to drown out this positive news via the ruin of the Tory Party as it was then known...
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Diana J Austin
The issue of Texas had a closer connection with President Polk than Oregon. One of the leaders of the Texas breakaway from Mexico was Polk's brother-in-law, Stephen F Austin
