To correctly understand the phenomenom of the Enlightenment we must resort to its fundamentals sources of inspiration.
- The philosophy of Descartes - " Based on methodical doubt to admit only clear and obvious trhuts".
- And the scientific revolution. Supported by simple general laws of a physical nature.
The enlightened thought that these laws could be discovered by the Cartesian method and applied universally to the government and human societies.
That is why the elite of this era felt a great desire to learn and to teach what they had learned.
The Schlieffen plan as they had went overseas to Russia and from there they had went to france
It came on June 17, 1885.
<span>Ideas that the USA was planning any invasion of Canada in 1865 or just after are nonsense - Britain had sold far more war materiel to the Union than the Confederacy during the Civil War,the Union army was needed to enforce Reconstruction on US citizens in the South,and any war with Britain would have seen the huge British navy establish a blockade of the US coast and cripple the US economy - as it had done in the War of !812.President Johnson was aware of all of this,so had no intention - or desire to - attack Canada.</span>
