Intervention of Foreign Powers

In the War of 1812, the American Revolution, and the Civil War, foreign intervention did have a big impact on the outcomes. The American Revolution, fought mainly by Americans and the British, was won by the young rebel nation due to the support of France. The French entered the war in 1778 and assisted in attaining the victory for the Americans seeking independence from Britain. In the War of 1812, the Russian Tsar Alexander I also played a role in the outcome of the war. He, not wanting his British ally to lose any more in the battle with America, gathered American peacemakers in 1814, and later the Treaty of Ghent was signed, an armitice that ended the war. Without foreign intervention, the war might have gone on longer. Foreign intervention was also important in the Civil War, for the British, in the beginning, supplied the South with boats. However, the South, depending on foreign intervention, didn't get it after the North threatened to cut off food supply to the British. If the South would have continued to receieve support from Britain, and perhaps other foreign countries, the south could have had a chance at winning the war.