Show the alabama claims claim the alabama claims were claims of the united states against great britain for losses inflicted on shipping by the alabama shenandoah and other confederate vessels fitted out in british ports during the civil war the united states claimed in direct losses and many times that amount in indirect losses looses the matter was arbitrated in 1871 and in the following year the geneva genera tribunal awarded the united states an indemnity of in gold as paid by great britain 11 in |