Monthly Archives: June 2019

Enough was enough.  On June 18, 1812 America declared war on Great Britain.  The British were stopping our trade ships on the high seas and seizing young American merchant sailors, forcing them to serve in the Royal Navy.  They were blockading our ports to keep us from trading with Napoleon’s France, with whom they were at war.  They were inciting Indians on the frontier to attack American settlers.  America, with a fleet that could in no way match Britain’s Royal…..

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