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June 1812

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Fed up with impressment and other interference, on this date the United States declared war on Britain.

The conflict would become known as the War of 1812 because...well, because it started in...never mind.

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"The outrages in impressing American seamen exceed all manner of description. Indeed, the whole system of aggression now is such that the real question between Great Britain and the United States has ceased to be a question merely relating to certain rights of commerce ... it is now clearly, positively, and directly a question of independence, that is to say, whether the United States are really and independent nation."
- John Clopton of Virginia

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