History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1098 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Impressment Returns
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The idea
During the Napoleonic Wars both France and England seized American merchant vessels, and the crisis peaked in eighteen oh seven.
In practice
HMS Leopard firing on the USS Chesapeake off Norfolk and taking four sailors.
Where people slip
Impressment had been left unresolved by Jay's Treaty thirteen years earlier, in entry 1072.
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