Alabama (original) (raw)
- MLA 8TH EDITION
- Winks, Robin W.. "Alabama". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 26 May 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alabama. Accessed 21 October 2024.
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- APA 6TH EDITION
- Winks, R. (2015). Alabama. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alabama
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- CHICAGO 17TH EDITION
- Winks, Robin W.. "Alabama." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 06, 2006; Last Edited May 26, 2015.
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- TURABIAN 8TH EDITION
- The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Alabama," by Robin W. Winks, Accessed October 21, 2024, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alabama
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Published Online February 6, 2006
Last Edited May 26, 2015
Alabama, Confederate warship constructed in Britain during the American Civil War. The US sought to have the ship detained in Britain, but it escaped. Until it was sunk in June 1864, it attacked Union (Northern) shipping, inflicting great losses.
Alabama
Alabama, Confederate warship constructed in Britain during the American Civil War. The US sought to have the ship detained in Britain, but it escaped. Until it was sunk in June 1864, it attacked Union (Northern) shipping, inflicting great losses. American claims for compensation from Britain, submitted to arbitration in 1871, were omitted from negotiations for the Treaty of Washington, despite an American suggestion that compensation might be made by cession of some Canadian territory. In 1872 a Geneva tribunal awarded $15.5 million in gold to the US in compensation.