Could the Confederacy have won the U.S. Civil War (gained independance)?
Make arguments here.

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Which confederacy? Which civil war?

Confederate States of America
US Civil War

Who cares ?

They shouldn't of counted on the European powers of the time interving to help them. England may have done but they had there hand tied when the war was portrayed as a war on slavery. Additionally they got a lot of there cotton from colonies so the CSA wasn't needed for pure resources.

Anyhow they also had some cracking battle songs and frankly there flag is more aesthetic than the stars and stripes

Excuse me, did you say ENGLAND? Remind me of the year of the US Civil War, and then state which country you thought it was again.

At the end of the day both sides was evil. One had slaves the other slaughtered millions of natives.

Wait Ox I do realise the America civil war was in America.

Or am I missing something

He wants you to say British

he wants you to say Britain.

really a centisecond

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It was almost the same sentence.

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Ahh yeah Britain

He wants you to say Scotland and other celtic brethren.

No, no it could not have won; not without foreign intervention.

Many folk often forget Russia's express support for current American government; without it, Britain and France would be much eager to do something against it.

Read Southern Victory by Harry Turtledove

Very much so, there were many people in the Northern US that would of signed peace with the South.

Why'd you choose that flag in particular, Kilos? There's 3 or 4 others. Just curious.

I thimk they could have if they had been the nice ones and released slaves. Then the Euro powers would have been shamed and helped them.

If the Copperheads had won the 1864 election, probably. Actually, if the Confederacy had gone with guerrilla tactics, they might've been around today. It's all about making the invasion as expensive as possible for the North in terms of lives and materiel.