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This has sort of already happened.  During the US civil war, the south courted recognition from Britain and France.  Britain was close to granting it while the south was winning.  On can then imagine that British warships might have started escorting southern bloackade running ships taking cotton to britain and returning with armaments, and eventually being drawn into war with the US, as it already had been twice before and as recently as the war of 1812.