![]() ![]() So-called “War Hawks” in Congress, led by Speaker of the House Henry Clay and Rep. ![]() 2, which removes all remaining embargoes on struggling American shippers. The following year this act is replaced by Macon’s Bill No. Jefferson’s unpopular Embargo Act is repealed and replaced by the Non-Intercourse Act, which lifts the costly restrictions on US vessels sailing abroad, except for those bound to British or French ports. In an attempt to secure American trade rights, the first version of Jefferson’s Embargo Act is passed the following December 22nd. President Jefferson issues a list of grievances against Great Britain. JChesapeake Incident: While searching for Royal Navy deserters, the frigate HMS Leopard stops and attempts to board the American frigate Chesapeake, eventually firing a broadside into her and killing or wounding 21 American seamen the American public is outraged. In another blow against American commerce, the British government issues its Orders in Council of 1807 to cut off all maritime trade between France, British allies, and neutral nations, including the United States. The United States protests that many of these unfortunate sailors are in fact naturalized US citizens. In the long fight to contain Napoleon and his allies, the depleted Royal Navy is forced to bolster itself via a policy of impressment, whereby any sailor of actual or suspected British birth can be forcibly removed from a foreign vessel and pressed into military service. The United States and Napoleonic France conclude their transfer of Louisiana to US ownership despite strenuous objections by Great Britain and Spain that the purchase violates the terms of the Treaty of San Ildefonso. ![]()
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