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	Trent Affair. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		On Nov. 8, 1861, the British mail packet Trent, carrying James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners to London and Paris respectively, was halted in the Bahama Channel by the U.S. warship San Jacinto, commanded by Capt. Charles Wilkes.
		The commissioners and their secretaries were forcibly removed from the Trent and taken to Boston, where they were interned in Fort Warren.
		This act was strictly opposed to the laws of the sea as they had been previously upheld by the United States, since Wilkes did not seize the vessel and bring it in for admiralty adjudication but merely exercised search and seizure of the men.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/TrentAff.html (347 words)

	The Trent Affair
		The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
		The Trent affair built confidence between the Governments of Britain and the United States.
		The successful resolution of this crisis produced a sense that continued peace with the United States was possible, and this perception became a self-fulfilling prophecy despite subsequent strains in the Anglo-American relationship.
	future.state.gov /when/timeline/1861_timeline/trent_affair.html (728 words)

	Trent Affair - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Trent Affair incident in the diplomatic relations between the United States and Great Britain, which occurred during the American Civil War.
		'War with America': the Trent affair and the experience of news in colonial Australia.
		Trent University announces new spiritual affairs coordinator; Chaplain enhances student services at Trent with support from local churches.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-trentaff.html (482 words)

	Trent affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.
		The Trent departed from Havana, Cuba, but was stopped by Captain Charles Wilkes of the USS San Jacinto on November 8, 1861, and the two Confederate diplomats and their secretaries were removed, over their protests and the protests of the Trent's captain.
		The Trent affair had the unexpected effect of building confidence between the governments of Britain and the U.S. Before the crisis most British officials, whose sympathies lay with the Confederacy, had seen Seward as an aggressive Abolitionist who sought a war with Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trent_Affair (1598 words)

	Confederate Operations in Canada
		The Trent Affair and the Chesapeake incident served to heighten the tension between the North and BNA.
		Trent Affair (1861), the Chesapeake Incident (1863) and the St.
		According to one account, which has reached us by a passenger from Rouses Point, the affair is rather a Bank robbery than a Confederate raid, by persons who had concealed themselves in the vicinity, one of the Banks in St. Albans being erroneously supposed to have a great deal of gold in deposit.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /010300/confederate_operations_in_canada.htm (1822 words)

	Trent Affair - The Lion Roars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The next day the Trent encountered the Union warship San Jacinto, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, who fired two shots across the Trent's bow, forcing her to stop.
		The British captain of the neutral Trent was outraged but had no choice but to turn over his passengers to Captain Wilkes.
		Fascinating Fact: In a role reversal, the outrage felt by England over the Trent affair arose from the same issue- freedom of the seas- that led the United States to declare war on England in 1812.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /ForeignInfluences/trentaffair-lion.html (338 words)

	Wallace - Trent Affair
		This was an episode in the history of Anglo-American relations that threatened in 1861 to embroil Canada, as part of the British Empire, in war with the United States.
		On November 8, 1861, Captain Wilkes of the United States sloop Jacinto halted the British steamer Trent, plying between Vera Cruz and the Danish islands of St. Thomas, and removed from it two commissioners of the Southern Confederacy, James Murray Mason and John Slidell, who were on their way to Europe.
		The British government promptly protested against this flagrant breach of international law; and for a few weeks it looked as though the incident might lead to war.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/Wallace-TrentAffair.htm (200 words)

	Trent Affair - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Trent Affair, incident during the American Civil War that severely tested diplomatic relations between the United States and Great Britain.
		This report of the interception of the British mail steamer Trent by the San Jacinto, which sailed under the federal flag of the northern states,...
		As commander of the frigate San Jacinto during the American Civil War, on November 8, 1861, he stopped at sea the British mail steamer Trent and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Trent_Affair.html (120 words)

	II. On the "Trent" Affair by John Bright. Great Britain: II. (1780-1861). Vol. IV. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. ...
		When that time comes, I pray that it may not be said among them, that in the darkest hour of their country’s trials, England, the land of their fathers, looked on with icy coldness and saw unmoved the perils and calamities of their children.
		Delivered at a banquet in Rochdale, December 4, 1861, and recognized at the time as having stemmed the tide of exasperation which had set in among the English over what is known as the “Trent” Affair.
		This affair was the forcible seizure (on board the English vessel Trent) in the Bahama channel November 8, 1861, of the Confederate commissioners to Europe, Mason and Slidell, by a United States captain named Wilkes.
	www.bartleby.com /268/4/22.html (3105 words)

	The Trent Affair
		With all the usual credentials and necessary powers the commissioners departed for Havana, Cuba, on the blockade-runner "Theodora," where they arrived in safety and were presented to the captain-general of the island by the British consul, not in official capacity but as gentlemen of distinction.
		A shell from the "San Jacinto" across her course brought the "Trent" to without delay and Captain Wilkes then sent his executive officer with a guard of marines and a full armed boat crew to board the British ship.
		The boarding of the "Trent" was an outrage of national amity which could not escape the indignation of all maritime nations.
	www.civilwarhome.com /trent.htm (888 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments - Canada - Trent Affair
		One of these "almost forgotten" episodes is the Trent Affair, which occurred during the first year of the American Civil War, and almost embroiled Canada in the American Civil War.
		The military response to the Trent Affair was the mounting and deployment of a force of over 11,500 troops across the winter storm tossed North Atlantic.
		News of the "Trent Affair" did not reach London until 28 November, the decision to reinforce Canada was made on 6 December and the first troops had sailed by 7 December.
	www.lightinfantry.org.uk /regiments/Canada/can_trent.htm (5264 words)

	News From The Past, "The Trent Affair"
		The excitement relative to the Trent affair continued abated (sic).
		The Settlement of the Mason and Slidell Affair
		Subjoined will be found an abstract of the correspondence between the Governments of Great Britain and of the United States in relation to the question of international law raised by the proceeding of Capt. Wilkes; and of the representations made on the same subject by the Government of France, and the reply of Mr.
	www.civilwarhome.com /washstartrent.htm (1626 words)

	The Trent Lott Affair--Anatomy Of A Smear The Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy & Context Of A Smear
		The Trent Lott Affair--Anatomy Of A Smear The Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy and Context Of A Smear
		The essay may be pulled up at Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy and Context Of A Smear.
		The title, of course, is, The Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy and Context Of A Smear.
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	The Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy & Context Of A Smear
		The Trent Lott Affair--The Anatomy & Context Of A Smear
		To understand just how distorted the whole affair has been, it is necessary to look a bit closer at those 54 year old issues; closer than any of those, who have made such a mountain out of them, have yet deigned to look.
		And it is a tragic weakness in some of those heirs, that they have allowed despicable, hate-filled propagandists in academic gowns, to make them ashamed or apologetic for their familial traditions and achievements.
	pages.prodigy.net /krtq73aa/lott.htm (4537 words)

	Trent Affair - One War At A Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Trent Affair "One War At A Time" November 8, 1861
		England quickly sent an ultimatum to the United States: surrender James Murray Mason and John Slidell, the two Confederate emissaries, and apologize for the kidnapping, or go to war.
		At no other time did they come so close to succeeding in their mission of gaining European recognition of the Confederacy.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /ForeignInfluences/trentaffair-onewar.html (399 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 270, TRENT AFFAIR: Library of Economics and Liberty
		TRENT AFFAIR, The (IN In the autumn of 1861 the government of the confederate states (see that title) sent J. Mason and John Slidell as commissioners to Great Britain and France respectively.
		They ran the blockade to Havana, and there embarked on an English merchant steamer, the "Trent," for St. Thomas, on their way to England.
		About noon of Nov. 8 the vessel was stopped in the old Bahama channel by the United States steamer "San Jacinto," Capt. Wilkes, and the commissioners were taken out of her and transferred to Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, as prisoners.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1040.html (253 words)

	Introduction
		In a television interview, A Current Affair, the mistress of Lyndon Johnson, Madeleine Brown, described the meeting of 21st November, 1963, when she was at the home of Clint Murchison.
		In the Trent Affair, the reaction of the French and British differed considerably.
		It was the height of the Britain empire, and she was eager to capitalize on the event as an act of war at a time she knew the United States was critically divided.
	itwasjohnson.impiousdigest.com /Intro.html (2575 words)

	The Trent Affair - Towards Confederation - Canadian Confederation
		On November 8, 1861, the USS Jacinto, flouting international laws, stopped the British mail packet the Trent sailing from Havana to England and arrested two Confederate diplomats and their secretaries who were on a diplomatic mission to England.
		The affair caused a "profound sensation" in British North America as the Maritimes and Canada realized that they could become a battlefield in a potential Anglo-Northern war.
		London announced that it would defend its colonies with all its power and sent 14 000 officers and men as reinforcements.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2011-e.html (146 words)

	The Trent Affair: How the Prince Consort Saved the United States
		As the Trent slowly approached, the San Jacinto fired a shell which exploded half a cable's length ahead of her.
		No sooner had the Trent made port on November 27th than the Admiralty were in receipt of a report from Commander Williams giving a graphic account of the incident.
		The reasons which he gave to his superior officer for this action were, first, that it would require too large a prize crew to take possession of the Trent and, secondly, that her capture would seriously inconvenience a number of innocent women and children and merchants who were bound for various ports.
	www.reformation.org /trent-affair.html (4616 words)

	affair - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dreyfus Affair, the controversy involving the French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, who was convicted on a charge of treason in 1894.
		Trent Affair, incident during the American Civil War that severely tested diplomatic relations between the United States and Britain.
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	The Trent Affair
		This decision became a source of controversy, with the British many claiming that the San Jacinto had violated international law by removing persons from a ship without taking the ship to a prize court for adjudication.
		Gordon H. Warren, Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1981).
		Norman B. Ferris, The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/time/cw/17612.htm (804 words)

	The Trent Affair
		on board the British mail steamer Trent, in the Bahamas Channel, by Commodore Wilkes of the United States sloop of war San Jacinto.
		Captain Charles Wilkes, the captain of the San Jacinto at the time when she overhauled the Trent, is a native of New York, of which State he is a citizen, and from which State he was appointed to the navy.
		He was born about the year 1805, and at the early age of thirteen entered the naval service, his original entry therein bearing date January 1, 1818.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/trent-affair.htm (755 words)

	Trent Affair — Infoplease.com
		A Man Out of Time: Trent Lott and the GOP grew up together in the South.
		Keeping on: Toni Trent Parker's legacy is the vast array of books now available to fl children and all children.(Obituary)
		Using hate to feed the state: the case of Trent Lott illustrates the establishment media's use of a totalitarian tactic described......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0849365.html (542 words)

	The Trent Affair
		After speeches from members in support of and in opposition to the proposition, the whole subject was laid on the table by a vote of seventy-eight yeas to sixty-four nays.
		The consideration of the bill authorizing the raising of a volunteer force for the defense of Kentucky was then resumed, which called up a discussion upon nearly the whole conduct of the war.
		Bright had made a speech at Rochdale, in which he referred in the friendliest terms to the cause in which the North is engaged, and expressed a hope that a rupture might still be avoided.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/december/trent-affair.htm (4002 words)

	The Trent Affair
		The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis elucidates how close the two nations actually came to conflict.
		Trent affair that some historians have attributed to it”(p.
		Trent and began quoting precedents, interpretations of mar-time law to justify Wilkes’ action.
	personal.tcu.edu /~SWOODWORTH/Ferris-TA.htm (618 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
		This outraged the British who considered it a violation of their neutrality, and the Trent Affair threatened to detonate a war.
		Search on Trent Affair for contemporary first hand accounts, such as a letter from Thurlow Weed reporting on the situation in Britain to Secretary of State William H. Seward.
		Consider if the Trent Affair had resulted in a war with Britain or if France had succeeded in establishing a colony in Mexico and Texas.
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	The Black Commentator - A Chicano Looks at the Trent Lott Affair
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		But the Lott Affair ought not to be shoved under the rug so quickly.
		A spokesman for one of Senator Lott's preferred organizations, the Council of Conservative Citizens, for example, declared in 1998: "The litmus test is where do the politicians stand on immigration and race.
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