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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 2060621, member: 5036&quot;]I&#039;ve got to stick my beak in on this one. While the Emancipation Proclamation made the war politically about slavery and was a hands off gesture to France and England neither country was going to get involved with troops on the ground. Now materials maybe, but John Slidell the CSA Ambassador to France was loathed beyond all belief because of his crude behavior and blunt speech. France only agreed that they might buy cotton from the CSA if the CSA ever managed to break the blockade of the North and if England agreed to buy as well, which France suspected would never happen and did never happen because the British had long rejected any kind of intervention. Besides France was busy using the North&#039;s occupation with the Civil War to intervene in Mexico in 1862 and 1863 and wanted nothing more than a prolonged fight between the two countries so they had time to solidify their hold on Mexico through Maximilian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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