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- British and U.S. diplomats worked out the Johnson-Clarendon Convention of 1869, recommending a commission to review the Alabama claims, but this proposal met overwhelming defeat in the Senate, where Charles Sumner, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, spoke passionately against it.
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Oct 27, 2009 · U.S. Senator Charles Sumner initially considered asking for damages of $2 billion, or the annexing of Canada to the United States, as payment for the Alabama claims.
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.
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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 1, 2003 · For Sumner's speech, see Charles Sumner, The Alabama Claims: Speech Against the Ratification of the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty (London, 1869). See also Donald, Sumner and the Rights of Man, 374–86; Cook, The Alabama Claims, 74–98; Nevins, Hamilton Fish, 152.
- Jay Sexton
- 2003
Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argued that British aid to the Confederacy had prolonged the Civil War by 2 years, and indirectly cost the United States...
At this juncture, Charles Sumner advanced the theory that not only had the United States suffered direct damages, the illegal support given by Britain to the Confederacy had doubled the duration of the Civil War. He thus calculated that the United States should advance a claim of $2,125,000,000. The British were not amused.
