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Originally Posted by smart makes a comeback
Lot of yammering, some good stuff too, some I have on ignore, and I am sure I am not missing anything there.
Lets get a cpuple things off the table though, before we all get any more stupid for the waste of bandwidth.
First and foremost...No one assembled 21 men, travaled 1500 miles to simply "rob a bank"
The phrase is over used, but this might ACTUALLY be, "The MOST stupid thing I ever heard"
Or at least , the stupidist thing since Bluedog claimed there are texts from the 1st century that prove the existance of god, or since Dum1 claimed Hillary Clinton is a neo con
moving on...
Second, there were from the first days of the conflict till the final days of the war, efforts by the CSA to forge an allience, be it covert or public, with Canada. This is a given that no one but a historical illiterate would deny
The only question, is to fill in the blanks as to the extent of the connection between this raid, and the war effort
That is all for now...carry on
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First, where do you get the 1500 miles from? Even on teh off chance he did, it is doubtful his men did. I don't think Bennet came from Jackson, MS to rob the bank. They did already have men in the area of the Great Lakes.
Second, all it amounted to was a series of bank robberies, nothing else. It is asinine to think that Britain would have joined the side which was going to be the clear loser, not only that, they had NOTHING to gain. But they had penty to lose.
What is foolish is the notion that some bank robberies were giong to create a second front, which would have only been a second front for a few months. Plus, that second front would have been crushed, and they knew it. Britain toyed with the idea of helping the CSA when the CSA had a chance to win, that was over with by the fall of 1864.
Oh, and Hillary Clinton is a neocon.