Royal Navy warships frequently sent armed press gangs into Halifax and other Nova Scotian towns, where they occasionally fought with local townspeople. [1] Such incidents were often violent and a ...
In the desperate war against Napoleon, the British believed that they could not afford to abandon impressment and that offending the Americans was seen as a much lesser evil than losing to Napoleon.
Facing a slow but sure grinding defeat, it seems entirely possible that the Ukrainians will make increasingly desperate efforts to draw the U.S. into the war, an outcome that American ...