PAPERS RELATIVE TO RECRUITING IN THE UNITED STATES. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY.1856. by Parliament: : David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC : Specializing in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas.

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PAPERS RELATIVE TO RECRUITING IN THE UNITED STATES. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY.1856.

1856 London: Harrison and Sons. [1856]. Folio, original printed blue wrappers [chipped along spine, some wrapper edge wear, old rubberstamp on front wrap]. Stitched, 267 clean pages. Very Good. [offered with] FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO RECRUITING IN THE UNITED STATES. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY.1856. London: Harrison and Sons. [1856]. Folio, stitched. 57, [1] pp. Very Good. The Papers reflect the ongoing British effort to recruit American citizens and other American residents to serve in the British army in its war against Russia; and the conflict thus generated with the United States, which protested that such attempts violated American neutrality and compromised American sovereignty. Much of the documentation concerns diplomatic correspondence with the United States on this dispute; and correspondence with Crampton, England's point man for American recruitments. President Pierce's Attorney General, Caleb Cushing, "directed the prosecution of Crampton, the British minister in Washington, on the charge of recruiting soldiers within our borders for the British army during the Crimean War." DAB. This document also chronicles Parliament's reaction to that event. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat.

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