Neither England nor France officially recognized the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, But they needed Confederate produce. The mills of England in particular needed cotton from Southern plantations. The South needed arms from European manufacturers. A brisk trade between the Southern states and Europe, mostly through the British port of Liverpool, developed early in the war. To interdict it the United States Navy established a naval blockade of Southern ports, part of the Union?s Anaconda Plan to strangle the rebellion.
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