[DesertRhino]

Abolishing the slave trade in 1807 you say? That would be quite interesting to American sailors forced into servitude on British ships by impressment until we kicked their ass in 1812.

[Pelham]

I must have missed the part were men were bought and sold under impressment. Perhaps you’d be good enough to show us such an example.

Calling impressment “slavery” makes as much sense as calling our military draft slavery. You didn’t burn your Impressment Card, did you?

[katana]

It's nice to think of the War of 1812 as an American victory. But except for the Battles of Lake Erie and New Orleans (the latter occurring two weeks after peace was signed at Ghent) it was mostly our asses that got kicked. Under that treaty they did cease impressing American sailors into the British Navy, more because the global war with Napoleon had been finished at Waterloo, the navy didn't require the extra manpower any longer, and impressment was not worth the expense of another war.

In fact, Mr. Madison's War (which considering his ties to Jefferson might classify it as one of our several Democrat inspired and ill considered wars) almost undid us. The Brits finally concluded that peace and a gradual reconciliation was better than more wars that they could at that time not really lose, but neither outright win, with their rambunctious and increasingly powerful cousins.