Britain in the Civil War

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Matthew Price, North and South — With Britain Watching. Boston Globe, June 19, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/06/19/north_and_south__with_britain_watching/
(book review on Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain’s crucial role in the American Civil War. Random House, 2011)

Quote: "The fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861 set off a furious diplomatic contest between North and South for the favors of Great Britain, then the world’s superpower.

Note:
(a) Cecil B DeMille
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille
(1881-1959; American film director for The Ten Commandments (1956, starring Charlton Heston as Moses)
(b) drawing room (n; short for withdrawing room): "a formal reception room"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c) pathos (n; Greek, suffering, experience, emotion):
"an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion"
(d) Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston
(1784-1865; prime minister 1859-1865)
(e) William H Seward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward
(1801-1872; US secretary of state 1861-1869)
(f) Fulminate (vt, vi; Latin fulminare, to strike ): "utter or send out with denunciation"
(g) Home Secretay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary
(the minister in charge of the Home Office of the United Kingdom; responsible for internal affairs within England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole of the United Kingdom)
(h) Battle of Chancellorsville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville
(fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville; Strength 133,868 for Union vs] 60,892 [for Confederate]; The [Confederate] victory, a product of [Robert E] Lee's audacity and [Union general Joseph] Hooker's timid combat performance, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson to friendly fire)
(i) William Tecumseh Sherman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
(1820-1891; Sherman himself reports that his middle name grew from the fact that his father "caught a fancy for the great chief of the Shawnees, 'Tecumseh'")
(j) Battle of Shiloh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
(April 6–7, 1862; around the small log church named Shiloh (the Hebrew word that means "place of peace"), Tennessee; Union victory, led by Ulysses S. Grant)
(k) The review mentions one "Dr Livingstone."

David Livingstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone
(1813-1873; a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary; section 4 Stanley meeting)

(l) "Percy Wyndham (soldier) (1833-1879), British soldier and adventurer in the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wyndham
(m) twiddle (vt): "to rotate lightly or idly <twiddled his pen>"
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