HIST-0028 Lecture Notes - Impressment
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Hard to get men to stay on british ships, so they force people (americans and british) to work ships. Stop american merchant ships and impress sailors. American ship in peaceful waters, british ship comes, fires at it, takes people, leaves. Sign that british don"t respect american power. Britain already moving to trade more in other areas, latin america. Coldish war between british canada and america. Military at this point never over 15,000 men. Republican majority passes war bill june 18th, 1812. Good time to go to war with britain- napoleon has the upper hand in that war. British forces free up as napoleon declines. Americans immediately launch and invasion of canada. Several battles near the ny/maine canada border in attempts to take canada. American navy doesn"t have the resources to fight british navy. Up and down the chesapeake burning cities ect and later. Baltimore turns out to be strongest city in this war.
