![]() 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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