it was hard for the U.S. to trade with both countries...and the British started impressment on the Americans because of them going to trade with the French!
Friend,while it would be sometimes difficult to realise ,in fact Britain has been at peace with France since defeating them at Trafalgar in1805.,although naval skirmishes continued until 1814 The...
Britain was in debt and expected the colonies to get them out of it. The British acted on their own to impose new taxes and regulations on colonial trade which angered the colonist. {:
The Napoleonic Wars were just one set of conflicts between France and Britain. Previously Britain had been at war with France along with Austria, Hanover, Prussia and Denmark from 1701 to 1711 to...