Stealing+American+Ships


 *  Stealing American ships **


 * Our question was "why did the British keep stealing Americans ships even though they signed a treaty?" **


 * The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, [|France] , [|Spain]  and the [|Dutch Republic]  had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties, see [|Peace of Paris (1783)] . Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries. **


 * The Napoleonic Wars started in 1803 and fell in 1815. They were many wars between Napoleon's [|French Empire]  and the opposing colonists led by Great Britain. As the wars continued (sparked by the [|French Revolution]  of 1789) they took down European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale. Frenches power rose quickly as Napoleon's armies conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France's failed at the invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon was defeated in 1814. He returned and was finally defeated in 1815 at Waterloo, and all France's gains were taken away by the victors. **
 * Before a final victory against Napoleon, five of seven coalitions saw defeat at the hands of France. France defeated the first and second coalitions during the French Revolutionary War's, the third, the fourth, and the fifth coalition was under the leadership of Napoleon. These great victories gave the French Army a sense of power, especially when they approached Moscow. But after the retreat from Russia, in spite of incomplete victories, France was defeated Leipzig by the sixth coalition at in the peninsular War at Victoria and at the hands of the seventh coalition at Waterloo . **
 * The wars resulted in the dissolution of the Holy ****  Roman Empire    and in Germany and Italy that would lead to the two nations' respective consolidations later in the century. Meanwhile, the global Spanish Empire began to unravel as French [|occupation of Spain]   weakened Spain's hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Spanish America   . As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost [|world power]  for the next century. **
 * when the French Revolutionary War's ended and the Napoleonic Wars began. An early candidate is 9 November 1799, the date of [|Bonaparte's coup seizing power in France] . However, the most common date is 18 May 1803, when renewed war broke out between Britain and France, ending the one-year-old Peace of A miens, the only period of general peace in Europe between 1792 and 1814. Most actual fighting ceased following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815, although skirmishing continued as late as 3 July 1815 at the Battle of Issy. The second treaty of Paris officially  ended the wars on 20 November 1815. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 24px; vertical-align: super;">The British kept stealing American ships because they were looking for impressment **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 24px; vertical-align: super;">The British system of impressment humiliated and dishonored the U.S. because it was unable to protect its ships and their sailors. The British killed Americans and often took them from their ships and forced them into the Royal Navy increased greatly after 1803, and caused bitter anger in the United States. The anger reached a peak after June 22, 1807, when the British ship Leopard attacked the American Chesapeake off the U.S. coast, and removed four suspected deserters. This incident was perceived by Americans as an insult to American honor,it produced a demand for war in the United States in the summer of 1812. **

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 * [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment__]**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 32px; vertical-align: baseline;">Impressment: Impressment, is taking men with no notice and force them to be in the navy. It was used by the Royal [| Navy] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 32px; vertical-align: baseline;">, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing [|warships] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 32px; vertical-align: baseline;">, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of [|Edward I of England] **
 * [|Edward I of England]**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 32px; vertical-align: baseline;">What we learned while we tried to answer our question was that the only reason the British was stealing American ship was because of impressment. Americans were always blaming the British for all the trouble at sea and come to find out they were right because the British got caught and surrender . The reason they started stealing the ships was they didn't want America to keep trading with the french and to only trade with the people that were their allies like Russia, Sweden, hamburg, and German states. **


 * Ending the war **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calligraffitti; font-size: 32px; vertical-align: baseline;">The British finally surrendered but when the British and Americans finally ended the argument about the British and came to an agreement as long as the British agreed to stop stealing American ships but only if only the Americans would stop treading with french .They finally stopped stealing American ships and signed a treaty but at first the British didn't keep their end of the treaty but eventually they did. **