[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13971) Data: Confederate nation

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13971 >


On 2005-09-14, at 23.14, Brian Dunstan wrote:

>
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13971 >
>
> Finally, a really appropriate civil war nation.
>
> Technically speaking, the CSA was 11 states (or 13,
> depending on which faction within two border states
> one chooses to recognize).  Again technically
> speaking, the CSA did not even exist.  It never was
> recognized by any other power, and arguably has no
> more status than that of any other short-lived rebel
> group in any other nation.  Vichy France and Taiping
> China come to mind.
>

Well, the CSA apparently did dispatch diplomats abroad. Also, in the 
conflict between CSA and USA, Britain remained neutral and indirectly 
acknowledged CSA's claims of independence, angering the Northerners.

All technicalities, of course. The important thing is that they 
_wanted_ to be an independent nation...

Daniel