The Famous President Ulysses S. Grant (Civil War Hero)
In 1872, agreements were struck with the highest officials in the US. Government, including President of the United States Grant with Eastern Samoa (American Samoa) Tutuila High ranks and Manu'a islands, through military contacts in the Navy and Armed forces. The secret Treaties between both Eastern Samoan houses and the US remained with officials until the legislation could pass through the Senate, an obstacle of red-tape which took until 1878.
As the former General of the Northern forces, now Commander and Chief of the entire United States, Grant's total dislike of the British during the Civil War was known and accepted, and the feeling was mutual in overseas English political circles. Grant had also begun a campaign to gain favor in Ireland politics 1879 (uncertain neighbors of the British).
During the Civil War, Confederate rebels sent repeated delegations to European Imperials who were always interested in expanding their reach. James M. Mason was sent to London as Confederate Minister to Queen Victoria, and John Slidell was sent to Paris as Minister to Napoleon III, both were able to obtain private meetings with high British and French officials. The British answered by never officially giving political recognition for the Confederacy, but by masking their support through commercial trade, buying Confederate goods and selling military supplies to US. American enemies. Britain and the US. Americans were still at odds over the Trent Affair from late 1861.
United States & British Relations 1870s
After the Civil War ended, with the Southern Confederates and British English Imperials losing, the United States claimed that Britain owed compensation for disrupting Northern shipping routes from Hawaii, prolonging the length of the war by selling cheap weapons and ammunition to the Southern Confederates, and violating its own neutrality stance costing American lives. The United States were also at arms with Britain over the Alabama Claims and issues in Canada.
A Joint High Commission made up of American, Canadian, and British who met in Washington, D.C., in 1871 at which time demanded that Britain owed the United States $15.5 million in at least one debt, along with there being many other prospective property claims.
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