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Ultimately, the cabinet decided that the American situation was less urgent than the need to contain Russian expansion, so it rejected intervention. [28] During the Civil War, several British arms companies and financial firms secretly conducted business with Confederate agents in Europe, supplying the Confederacy with badly needed arms and ...
The intervention in May 2000 was the first major deployment of British forces to Sierra Leone during the civil war, but was not the first time British personnel had served there. In May 1997, a two-man training team from the British Army was sent to train SLA officers but discovered that the SLA's strength was much lower than it had reported.
Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war.The operation aimed to release five British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army (SLA) liaison officer, who were being held by a militia group known as the "West Side Boys".
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (2011). online; prizewinning popular history; Fuller, Howard J. Clad in iron: The American Civil War and the challenge of British naval power (Greenwood, 2008). Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992). Long, Madeline.
During the Civil War, British reactions to American events were shaped by past British policies and their own national interests, both strategically and economically. In the Western Hemisphere, as relations with the United States improved, Britain had become cautious about confronting the United States over issues in Central America .
The Malleson Mission was a British military intervention in Central Asia during the Russian Civil War, aimed at countering the spread of Bolshevism and protecting British interests in India. Led by Major General Wilfrid Malleson , [ 13 ] the mission began in 1918 with the deployment of British Indian Army troops to the city of Meshed in Persia ...
British victory: Duar War (1864–1865) India: Bhutan: British victory: British Expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868) United Kingdom: Ethiopia: British victory: Klang War (1867–1874) Selangor Civil War. Forces of Raja Abdullah of Klang. British Straits Settlements. Forces of Raja Mahadi British Allied victory: Nukapu Expedition (1871–1872 ...
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