![]() ![]() The leading Republican, Thomas Jefferson responded, that "the English being equally tyrannical at sea as he is on land, and that tyranny bearing on us in every point of either honor or interest, I say 'down with England." The United States declared the war on Britain. ![]() Pro-British Federalists in Washington were outraged by what they considered Republican favoritism toward France. Many who supported the call to arms saw British and Spanish territory in North America as potential prizes to be won by battle or negotiations after a successful war. Madison made the issue of impressment from ships under the American flag a matter of national sovereignty-even after the British agreed to end the practice-and asked Congress for a declaration of War on Great Britain on June 1, 1812. Great Britain continued to stop American merchant ships to search for Royal Navy deserters, to impress American seamen on the high seas into the Royal Navy, and to enforce its blockade of neutral commerce. The embargo and non-intercourse act proved ineffective and in 1810 the United States reopened trade with France and Great Britain provided they ceased their blockades against neutral trading. vessels from trading with European nations, and later the Non-Intercourse Acts, aimed solely at France and Britain. Congress passed an embargo act in 1807 in retaliation, prohibiting U.S. ![]() In 1806 France prohibited all neutral trade with Great Britain and in 1807 Great Britain banned trade between France, her allies, and the Americas. Diplomatic History > 1801-1829 War of 1812, 1812-1815Īs an important neutral trading nation, the United States became ensnarled in the European conflict that pitted Napoleonic France against Great Britain and her continental allies. You are in: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs > Bureau of Public Affairs: Office of the Historian > Timeline of U.S. ![]()
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