Niall Ferguson Quotes
Some places seem to have a civil war habit.
He was referring to Bosnia and other nations where civil war seems to break out over and over again—albeit much stimulated by outside forces.
Niall Ferguson, Historian, Speech, World Affairs Council. September 27, 2006
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As influential and revered as he was, Houston would not overcome the drive for secession by the wealthy, large, slave holders of Texas.
King George did not want to give up the American Colonies and claimed the loss at Yorktown was just a loss of a single battle. The English soldiers had controlled New York, Charlestown and other places and American Tories wanted to fighting to continue. The French were having major problems elsewhere and the states were all broke from the war effort. Hamilton urged Clinton to offer all the New York offers and soldiers half pay tp be available to fight against the other ex-colonies represented in the Continental Congress.
He himself became a victim of the Civil War when Oliver Cromwell ordered him beheaded in 1658
Commenting on remedies for possible Southern secession: Abraham Lincoln had already been elected, and Buchanan was sympathetic with the South.
Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and New York University, visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
