not just Britain either though they cam close to coming in and if they had the south might have won as that blockade would have been lifted so Lincoln need that reason to keep them out and it worked plus france and most of Europe was close to seeing the south as a country , free from the north
good post
Interesting. I had no clue how other European nations viewed the Confederacy. I knew that Great Britain had an interest in trading with a free and independent CSA. I didn’t know that France or any other continental European nations either supported or expected to see a free, independent CSA.