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The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869, for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War.
Sep 7, 2024 · Alabama claims, maritime grievances of the United States against Great Britain, accumulated during and after the American Civil War (1861–65). The claims are significant in international law for furthering the use of arbitration to settle disputes peacefully and for delineating certain.
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Alabama claims of the United States of America against Great Britain. Award rendered on 14 September 1872 by the tribunal of arbitration established by Article I of the Treaty of Washington...
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Mar 31, 2021 · The arbitration’s origins, however, lie as much in realpolitik as in idealism. Its conduct highlighted as much the flaws in international arbitration as its virtues. It was, above all, a political and diplomatic experiment that almost resulted in the British government’s disintegration in June 1872.
Jun 27, 2018 · Alabama claims made by the US against Britain for losses caused in the Civil War by British-built Confederate ships, particularly the cruiser Alabama, which captured or destroyed 66 ships before being itself sunk in June 1864.
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Mar 12, 2009 · BY March 1959, internment without trial under the Offences Against the State Act had been in operation in the 26 Counties for a year and eight months. Republicans were held in huts in a closely-guarded compound on the military lands at the Curragh in County Kildare, a site which had also been used for internment during the Second World War.
