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Date 1861
Participants United Kingdom • United States
Context American Civil War

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William H. Seward
William H. Seward
American politician
John Slidell
John Slidell
American diplomat
James Murray Mason
James Murray Mason
United States senator
Charles Wilkes, photograph by Mathew B. Brady
Charles Wilkes
American explorer and naval officer

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