Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Frigate and Clipper, Vol. 1
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?y because of the greater injury which England had wrought, owing to her superior strength on the sea.
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