[AU72]

The proximate cause was the British Navy press-ganging former British subjects on the high-seas.

Was that stopped after the War?

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The proximate cause was the British Navy press-ganging former British subjects on the high-seas.

Was that stopped after the War?

Some people think it was stopped before the war and the real reason was that we wanted to take over Canada.

Actually, communications were so slow that we didn't know that the British had offered to repeal the Orders in Council and stop impressment until after we'd already declared war.

But yes, in practice the British stopped doing that after the war.

[iowamark]

I think so. For the Brits, the war was a sideshow of the greater war with Napoleon. With his defeat at Waterloo, they accepted the US with the Louisiana Purchase added. Britain, however, did not really stop interference with the US until the 1870’s when the united Germany became their chief rival.