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Thomas Haines Dudley (1819-1893) was consul of the United States of America in Liverpool during the American Civil War.He was instrumental in leading efforts by the Federal Government to prevent British involvement in the war, and in particular in preventing blockade runners from Liverpool, such as the CSS Alabama, from assisting the Confederate war effort.
James Dunwoody Bulloch (June 25, 1823 – January 7, 1901) was the Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War.Based in Liverpool, he operated blockade runners and commerce raiders that provided the Confederacy with its only source of hard currency.
Liverpool in 1650. During the English Civil War there were three sieges of Liverpool. After the Roundheads captured Liverpool in 1643, a second siege took place in June 1644 led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine who arrived in Liverpool with 10,000 men in an attempt to capture Liverpool Castle for the King.
During the American Civil War (1861–65), consul Thomas Haines Dudley made strenuous efforts to prevent ships from Liverpool from breaking the United States Navy blockade of Confederate ports. [14] Great Britain remained officially neutral throughout the war but there were many Confederate sympathisers in Liverpool. [15]
The battle ensign of CSS Shenandoah is unique amongst the flags of the Confederate States of America as it was the only Confederate flag to circumnavigate the Earth during the Confederacy, and it was the last Confederate flag to be lowered by a combatant unit in the Civil War (in mid-river on the River Mersey at Liverpool, UK, on November 6, 1865).
Liverpool was controlled by the Crown, the Molyneux and Stanley families. 1642: 2,500: Liverpool overtook Chester in exporting coal and salt in early 17th century, especially to Ireland. 1644: During English Civil War, Prince Rupert led a royalist army to capture Liverpool. He described the town as a "mere crow's nest which a parcel of boys ...
Charles Kuhn Prioleau (1827–1887) was an American cotton merchant who became the senior partner of Fraser, Trenholm & Company in Liverpool, England, a firm that functioned as the European banker of the Confederacy and was its major supplier for arms and military ware during the American Civil War.
1089. The West Derby Hundred is recorded in the Domesday Book [1]; 1207 – 28 August: Liverpool and its market chartered by King John. [2] [3] [4]1229 – Charter granted by Henry III authorizing a merchants’ gild.