American Civil War event
also: Civil War in America, Civil War, the war
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“was very well known for textile mills and stuff like that. And the Tata family was like the largest production of textiles and cloth for the British. And it's very well known that the British was a big instigator of the Civil War and that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:22:06
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“So did the French, because a lot of this involved them through the continent of Africa as well, wanted the slave production, which is not unlike what we find in Gladio in the use of the African colony. Even after they supposedly decoloniali…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:22:33
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when he should have potentially, when Russians were begging him to go in and save their cousins in Donbass, he went in after Trump had left. So that is a great point. But, you know, I hope people do know that, but, you know, back in the Civ…
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into the American Civil War. And you had the Tsar send his fleet to LA, to California and to New York. And he parked his fleet there and he sent messages to Paris and to London saying, if you interfere in the American Civil War, we will des…
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The Federalists got driven out of power, but that's when Talmadge actually gets elected when the rest of his party disappears. A couple other side notes. He defended a guy by the name of Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams …
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I'll get into this a little bit more, but one of the main reasons the North won the Civil War was for economic reasons. We're going to get into this more, but Upham was a big part of that. There's estimates that by the end of the war, this …
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And when you get more of a product, what happens? Its price goes down. So gold causes inflation. So economic times are hard. You got all kinds of immigration coming to America. Remember, the Civil War was an economic war. The northern indus…
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And they're doing this in the 1850s. And they were producing things like fake $500 Union banknotes. So we get to the Civil War and why this matters. The Union is desperate for cash. And the Lincoln administration turns to the counterfeiters…
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He would also facilitate the sale of over 500 million dollars in government bonds to fund the war. That's a lot of money back then. That is billions today. He put his own face on the currency. Chase has a bit of an ego. And again, eventuall…
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And the big reason is they didn't want to put secession, basically the legality of the North's actions, on trial. Remember, the North suspended the Constitution, suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln arrested anybody who wrote a newspaper that w…
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And she used all kinds of tradecraft, using disguises and related tactics. But it required her to stay awake throughout the entire journey. And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh?…
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They were a big part of, you know, the Union intelligence. And these are not nice guys, by the way. They are tough. Interestingly, historians looking back have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union army…
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And so bad intelligence is really bad. And apparently he wasn't very good at it. So a little historical side note. So after the war, what do the Pinkertons do? Well, one of the first things they're doing is they're pursuing train robbers li…
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to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…
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I found one of the interesting things that he did was he ran against Horace Greeley for the Senate in 1861. And neither one of them won. You remember Horace Greeley? I do. That's a famous, Lincoln wrote a famous letter to Horace Greeley whe…
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In Lincoln's own words, it clearly was not. And that's where you find the best evidence is the letters to Horace Greeley that Lincoln wrote. So that was a fun little coincidence there. What else we have on him? Oh, yes. He is the one who pr…
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the British and the French helping the South, where Russia kind of cut them off on both coasts from interfering in the Civil War because they definitely wanted the South to win. Yeah. The tariffs that the North, the tariff of abominations, …
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most prestigious family in American history. And nobody talks about them. I have no idea how they've been able to stay under the radar. One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what …
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rail car company. Those were the sleeping class cars for first class travel. It was a new thing in the 1870s and he is an early investor. During the Civil War, his former boss, Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad was named the Assista…
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and rode the first train carrying the troops into D.C. Kind of a big deal. And it's funny because Carnegie's only 5'3", but he carried a really big persona. So him riding at the front of this train in front of all these soldiers, it's a com…
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Never fought, but he did help with the logistics. And the trains and logistics of the Union and the North was a big part of the reason why the North won that war. You've seen the Civil War films. You always see the Union blue on the railroa…
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No. In fact, he would not really get into philosophy for another 35, 40 years. And there's a reason for that. And you'll see the people that, you know, some of his heirs, when you see them interviewed, tell the story of Andrew Carnegie, the…
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That's why he supported. He's been a Republican and supported his whole life. All these Northeast industrialists and robber barons, they are Republicans. They are the ones who financed Lincoln's campaign and benefited from the Union winning…
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which remained one of the wealthiest and most influential dynasties in the US over the last century. In 1869, which would be just before the Fabian Society, the family patriarch, Judge Thomas Mellon, established Mellon Bank in the aftermath…
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from the South so they could take it to India, get it woven into cloth and then on to the UK. And so you can't, which is, of course, what we do now as far as wanting cheap things done by basically slave plantations all over the world. But y…
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and you see a fundamental shift in the way the United States is going to wage war. In actuality, the global war on terror brought to light a process that had been going on for quite some time, again, all the way back to the days of the pira…
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In 1865, the Intelligence Service became the modern Secret Service, firmly under the control of the U.S. government. Pinkertons would continue to work for the Union during the Civil War, probably as spies, however, being dispatched to New O…
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Just like the international syndicate today, everybody gets rich off of war, except for the poor damn bastards that have to fight it. Alan Pinkerton himself had been struggling prior to the conflict, but somehow got rich off of war. Imagine…
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on, uh, not funding the unconstitutional things and, uh, on the, all the nice things being unconstitutional, you know, can't, can't support them unless, uh, you know, unless it's, it's something that the federal government should be doing a…
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I'm thinking about that now and how the, you know, you said the Marshall Plan was used to pay for Operation Gladio. And I'm just connecting that back to Matt Ehret and his research on how the British kind of set up the Civil War by, you kno…
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was very well known for textile mills and stuff like that. And the Tata family was like the largest production of textiles and cloth for the British. And it's very well known that the British was a big instigator of the Civil War and that t…
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So did the French, because a lot of this involved them through the continent of Africa as well, wanted the slave production, which is not unlike what we find in Gladio in the use of the African colony. Even after they supposedly decoloniali…
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Tsar Nicholas said that or one of the whoever the Russian czar was at the time that he said that he was going to deploy and did deploy ships off the coast of the east and west coasts of the United States that the British and the French were…
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that the British and the French did not want to have to pay more for cotton. The price that they wanted to pay was with slave labor, which made cotton a lot cheaper in the United States. And so they definitely interfered in the Civil War. T…
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It was Alexander II, I believe. But the British had planted cotton in Egypt, which they were running at the time. Cotton crops came in during the Civil War, and that lessened their enthusiasm for going ahead and backing the South. So that a…
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that are in all these positions of power. They intermarry with these other families. You have to be of the right blood and stuff like that. This story really ties into it. Before we got too further down the timeline, I thought it was really…