Obviously, I don’t believe the causes of action to be comparable.
“Obviously, I don’t believe the causes of action to be comparable.”
They were both secession movements. In both cases the rebels fired on the troops of the established government. In both cases the government declared the rebels to be traitors and didn’t recognize their secession. Moreover London declared two emancipation proclamations during the secession of the Colonials. Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation of November 1775 and the Philipsburg Proclamation of June 1779. Had the United Kingdom prevailed then slavery in America would have ended 90 years earlier. So what cause of action are you objecting to?