FTP, identify this incident of the American Civil War which takes its name from the name of the British ship.
On November 8, 1861, Captain Charles Wilkes of the U.S. vessel San Jacinto intercepted at sea a British mail steamer, bound for Europe from Havana, Cuba. He took from the ship two Confederate commissioners who were among the passengers, James Mason and John Slidell. The two diplomats were subsequently held as prisoners in Boston, but Great Britain demanded their release on the ground that Wilkes's action had been illegal. FTP, identify this incident of the American Civil War which takes its name from the name of the British ship.
On November 8, 1861, Captain Charles Wilkes of the U.S. vessel San Jacinto intercepted at sea a British mail steamer, bound for Europe from Havana, Cuba.
Trent Affair