Policy of forcing us sailors to join the british navy 2 nations the fought of the war 18129/25/2023 The United States had only a few warships and gunboats with which to face the British navy-the most powerful naval force in the world. President James Madison named two top generals: 62-year-old Henry Dearborn and 63-year-old Thomas Pinckney. And the officers who knew about war were old enough to have led troops in the American Revolution. ![]() The soldiers who were young knew little about war. The United States had not fought a war, or needed an army, for a long time. ![]() “And so the British were basically fighting the war against the United States on the defensive in Canada, while trying to raid the American coast using their advantage in the more powerful Royal Navy.”įor its part, the United States was far from ready to fight. Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor says that, as a result, the British could send only a small force to the United States. Most of Britain's forces were battling the soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe. Today, we continue the story of the War of 1812. The United States had already declared war. These seizures were known as impressment.īritain finally suspended its orders against neutral trade, after a change in government. Sometimes there were also seizures of American sailors. It did so because Britain refused to stop seizing American ships that traded with France-Britain's enemy in Europe. The United States declared war on Britain in 1812. From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning English.
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