Excerpt from The Fight for a Free Sea Free Trade and Sailors' Rights! Was the Ameri can war cry. It expressed the two grievances which outweighed all others the interference with Amer ican shipping and the ruthless impressment of sea men from beneath the Stars and Stripes. No less high-handed than Great Britain's were Napoleon's offenses against American commerce, and there was just cause for war with France. Yet Americans felt the greater enmity toward England, partly as an in heritance from the Revolution, but chie& ...
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Excerpt from The Fight for a Free Sea Free Trade and Sailors' Rights! Was the Ameri can war cry. It expressed the two grievances which outweighed all others the interference with Amer ican shipping and the ruthless impressment of sea men from beneath the Stars and Stripes. No less high-handed than Great Britain's were Napoleon's offenses against American commerce, and there was just cause for war with France. Yet Americans felt the greater enmity toward England, partly as an in heritance from the Revolution, but chiefly because of the greater injury which England had wrought, owing to her superior strength on the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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