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Originally Posted by Oberon
To be fair Tribesman, the other three chaps we nabbed from the Chesapeake were press-ganged into Royal Navy service. The legality of that, in hindsight, is somewhat debatable, and indeed was quite distasteful to Americans of the time.
Furthermore, the Leopard barely gave the Chesapeake notice to stand down before she gave a full broadside.
However, we did offer to return (and did return) all three of the American citizens and pay reparations.
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I did hear that as well, but I think with our rebellion being still somewhat fresh in the minds of both, the situation was escalated.
Britain thought they could push their will, and America thought we should teach them another lesson.
Enslavement is enslavement. Whether you did it to our sailors, or attempted to do it (again) to our nation.
We earned this, let us destroy ourselves accordingly.
Edit: But things always change, I like to think we are the best of friends now, and have no need to be hostile. We both got over it, and have bigger mutual fish to fry.
