Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivostok on the Pacific. Half a century earlier, thousands of Imperial Russian Navy sailors and their officers flooded the cities of San Francisco…