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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. paid his first visit to Britain in 1869 at the age of ten, when the family arrived in Liverpool to stay with his mother’s refugee brothers. His maternal family, the Bullochs, were from Georgia. During the American Civil War, his uncles had directed the building in Liverpool of the Alabama, the most prominent Confederate gunrunner against the US naval blockade. The brothers were not given amnesty after the war, but, though the Roosevelts were always loyal, New York defenders of the Union, the family kept in touch. Theodore Sr. went on to tour England with his three children before taking the family around the Continent. They returned to England three years later before revisiting the Continent and touring Egypt and Palestine. |
