![]() This embargo will be altered in 1809, to foreign trade among anyone except France and Britain, then in 1910 any country except Britain. In December of 1806, American envoys James Monroe and William Pinckney negotiated with Britain to let us trade with British colonies in the West Indies, and to decrease impressment, and the British would only agree to the trade negotiation, which wasn’t good enough for Thomas Jefferson, and wouldn’t submit it to the Senate to approve.ĭecember 21, 1807, the Congress passed an embargo against any foreign trade, only allowing American ships to sail to American ports, and that foreign ships can only deliver to us, but that America cannot export to them, in hope to stall the upcoming war. It’s before the war has officially started but it causes British to gain control of the Atlantic Ocean for a whole century and can be considered a part of the war for it’s importance. ![]() The first battle, the Battle of Trafalgar at the coast of Spain, took place October 21, 1805. This impressment was the beginning of a war. In 1808, 4 years before war between Britain and America started, the French and the British were at war, and American sailors were being forced to fight for the British while sailing. The United States, still young, was to fight with the most powerful military at the time, Britain. The War of 1812 was brought on by interference of American trade because of Britain and France stealing our ships, by not being treated as an independent country by Britain (who were giving Native Americans guns to kill settlers) and wanting Florida from Spain as well as Canada from Britain.
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