The American Difficulty mb-width 2046 4th July 1999

4th July 1999

with figures and horse drawn vehicles in the foreground

Entrance to Regent's Canal Dock

A bellman and billman of the late 17th century

Poster advertising a Sunbeam-Talbot 90

The American Difficulty mb-width 2046 4th July 1999'The American Difficulty', 1861. Illustrating the worsening troubles between the North and the South in America. President Abraham Lincoln stokes the fire at the White House, just as he had stoked the fires of the Civil War with his imposition of a blockade on Southern ports. On 19th April 1861 Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports, which meant for the duration of the war the South was limited in its ability to stay well