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Maritime Museum: The is-! attracts vacationers and retired persons. ISt Peter Port, the capital, on the east coast, | a large deepwater harbor with a rocky islet hich Castle Cornet is situated. The Town i in St. Peter Port dates from the 15th century but has been extensively restored. The in which Victor Hugo lived from 1855 70 is a museum. Other points of interest irthe Guille-Alles Museum and Library, the Library, and the Maritime Library in Cornet. Population of the island: (1966 e) 45,747.
Other outstanding collections of artistic, historical, or scientific materials are on public display at the California Historical Society, the Society of California Pioneers, the San Francisco Maritime Museum, and the California Academy of Sciences.
Beginning with Britain on May 13, 1861, the European nations recognized the belligerency of the Confederate States. This was a limited recognition—the Europeans believed the Confederacy deserved the status of a nation for the purpose of fighting a war.
Questions of Maritime Rights. The fact that the Europeans treated the civil conflict as a true war also quickly raised old questions of maritime rights between belligerent and neutral nations. During the Civil War the traditional maritime roles of the United States and Britain were reversed. Britain had been the big naval belligerent who insisted on belligerent rights at the expense of the small naval belligerent, or neutral, and the United States had been the major maritime neutral. Now the Union was the major naval belligerent and Britain the foremost neutral. |
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