1. RAISING HELL IN MONTREAL.
- Author
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Home-Douglas, Pierre
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RAIDS (Military science) , *BIOTERRORISM , *NINETEENTH century , *HISTORY , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,FOREIGN participation in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 ,CANADIAN history, 1841-1867 - Abstract
The article looks at the use of Montreal, Quebec as a base for clandestine Confederate meetings during the U.S. Civil War. It looks at how Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent former Cabinet member Jacob Thompson to Montreal to organize a secret service that would raid the northern U.S. Thompson's plots included destabilizing the Union economy by converting paper money into gold, bioterrorism with yellow fever, and kidnapping President Abraham Lincoln.
- Published
- 2014