Process Essay: The War Of 1812

ID Essay – Question 2 The War of 1812 was an armed battle that continued from June 1812 to February 1815. The war was fought in three plays. At sea, warships and private armed ships of each side struck the other’s ships, while the British obstructed the Atlantic coast of the United States and attached large busts in the later phases of the war. land and naval fights were battled on the U.S, Canadian frontline. Significant encounters were fought in the Southern United States and Gulf Coast. The war took place because the British attempted to restrict the United States trade, the incarnation of about 10,000 American sailors and America’s longing to enlarge its territory. In the early 19th century, Great Britain was in the middle of a long and devastating conflict with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. Great Britain and France tried to cut off supplies from reaching the enemy attempting to stop the United States from trading with the other country this was called The Embargo Act. In 1807, Britain passed the Orders in Council, this required neutral countries to get a license before trading with France and its colonies. The United States challenged these
The British practice of operating naval ships with “busy” men, who were convincingly placed into service, was very common. Under the British rule, during war the navy had the right to pick up people through the Streets of Great Britain, arresting men and playing them in their Royal Navy. Americans believed that this time that the act of impressment was as a deliberate and dastardly, committed against innocent men. Impressment fueled barbarity, infuriating Congress into governmental action and rising ambassadorial pressures with Britain. The American’s responded equally to impressment against the British and seized gullible seamen to serve aboard the American fighting