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Description and Holding Information
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1872, US/UK Arb., Alabama Claims- Tribunal Award & U.K. Dissent (Fr.)
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Pièces relatives aux deliberations du tribunal d’arbitrage à genève; Deuxième partie, contenant la decision du tribunal, et l’exposé des motifs qui ont empeché Sir Alexander Cockburn d’y adherer: n.a., vii+321p, London, Harrison & Sons, n.d. (A TOC starts on p. iii. Lacks index. All in French. The reference to Part Two in the title relates to a Part One published by the same publisher at the same time. However, since the subject matter and paginations of the two items are quite different, to provide for clarity online, LLMC offers that piece as a separate title: LLMC No. 10102.
The “Alabama Claims” were maritime grievances of the United States against Great Britain that accumulated during and after the American Civil War. The phrase became shorthand for many claims by the U.S. against the British government for depredations against Union shipping worldwide by the Confederate Navy with British assistance. The flagship grievance was the consent by the British Government to the release of the Alabama, a ship built in England, to the Confederate Navy. That one ship wreaked havoc on U.S commerce; capturing, burning or sinking 68 U.S. merchant ships in 22 months. However, while the Alabama gave its name to the cause, other ships of British origin were involved. For example, the CSS Shanandoah was built in Liverpool and transferred to the Confederacy in Madeira with the connivance of the Royal Navy. It went on to circumnavigate the globe. On the way six Union merchantmen were burnt or sunk in the Indian Ocean. Later, over 20 ships of the Union whaling fleet, based from the neutral Kingdom of Hawaii, were destroyed in the Bering Sea.
The U.S. claimed direct and collateral damages for these composite wrongs under a pioneering application of nascent international law. The country was angry and emotions were raw. Predictably Congress fulminated at “perfidious Albion.” Senator Charles Sumner’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for an indemnity of $2 billion {ca. $32.3 billion in today’s money} and/or the cession of all of Canada. On another front, in 1867 William Seward was negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The Secretary of State clearly hoped that this would be followed by the annexation of British Columbia; thinking that the British Government might accede to that action in exchange for the settlement of the “Alabama Claims.” The fervor against the British peaked in early 1870, with American expansionists, British anti-imperialists, and
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Title:
Pièces relatives aux délibérations du Tribunal d'Arbitrage à Genève.
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OCLC Number:
881478703
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Available Volumes
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Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
Tome 1 | | Yes | No |
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