Valentin Pikul. Battle of the iron Chancellor (№ 281345)
Gorchakov visited and the Ambassador of distant Washington:
America never recognized the terms of the Paris Treaty. Squadron of the United States Navy at your disposal. Say the word and our monitors will appear on the Bosphorus, the finished shots of the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey to pay Russia for all the services that she has provided President Abraham Lincoln in his fight with the Southern States...
Thank you, - said Gorchakov. - Give gratitude to the Congress. But the war is confined to the fluttering of papers. Then all the papers will be filed in the archives, and we calmed the nerves with Valerian, we proceed to the revival of the black sea fleet.
Quote Explanation: The result of the Franco-Prussian war, Prussia achieved its cherished goal and created a new powerful Empire with a significant assistance of the Gorchakov and the Russian Chancellor took advantage of this change of circumstances for the destruction of the XI-th article of the Paris Treaty on the neutralization of the Black sea. Dispatch October 19, 1870, to advise offices about this decision by Russia, provoked a sharp response from the Lord Grenville, but all the great powers agreed to revise the aforesaid article of the Treaty of Paris and again to give Russia the right to keep a Navy in the Black sea, which was approved by the London Convention of 1871.
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MegaMozg 29-03-2017 / 20:30
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