Crossword-Solution: BACKDOWN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

American historians have usually attributed Napoleon's backdown to Seward's diplomacy supported by the military power of the United States, which was, of course, greater then than at any previous time in our history.

Come, now, who is going to walk in first? You act like a school-boy, Gorman." Hard words and a wrangle followed, but Smith did not change expression, and there was a backdown.

One is that the backdown is not only due to the strike of merchants, but to a fear that the soldiers could no longer be counted upon.

What other satisfactory explanation is there for Louis Napoleon's withdrawal from Mexico, for Great Britain's backdown in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, and for the withdrawal of the German fleet from Venezuela in 1902? While England has from time to time objected to some of the corollaries deduced from the Monroe Doctrine, she has on the whole been not unfavorably disposed toward the essential features of that policy.

Even this ingenious little paper caused a bitter fight, the claim being made that there was trickery in it, and that it meant a complete "backdown" of the Union.