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Both were able to obtain private meetings with high British and French officials, but they failed to secure official recognition for the Confederacy. Britain and the US were at sword's point during the Trent Affair in late 1861. Mason and Slidell had been seized from a British ship by an American warship.
John Slidell (1793 – July 9, 1871) was an American politician, lawyer, slaveholder, and businessman. [1] A native of New York , Slidell moved to Louisiana as a young man. He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate . [ 2 ]
Anthony Samuel Carollo (/ k ɑː ˈ r ɔː l oʊ / kar-AW-loh, [citation needed] Italian:; November 24, 1923 – February 1, 2007) was an American mobster, boss of the New Orleans crime family and son of the mob boss Silvestro Carollo.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). The Trent affair did not erupt as a major crisis until late November 1861. The first link in the chain of events occurred in February 1861, when the Confederacy created a three person European delegation consisting of William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre Rost, and Ambrose Dudley Mann.
The Wilsons' practice of hosting meetings solely for alcoholics, separate from the general Oxford Group meetings, generated criticism within the New York Oxford Group. Oxford Group members believed the Wilsons' sole focus on alcoholics caused them to ignore what else they could be doing for the Oxford Group.
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A mast failed and damaged some of the ship's sail rigging on 27 November. The timing and circumstances were regarded as suspicious, and Cromwell, the largest man on the crew, was questioned about his alleged meetings with Spencer. Cromwell said: "It was not me, sir – it was Small." Small was questioned and admitted meeting with Spencer.
Slidell / s l aɪ ˈ d ɛ l / is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 28,781 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] making it the sixteenth-most populous city in Louisiana. [ 3 ]