Happy War of 1812 Day.

[August]

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.

That's one single incident among many Oberon. How about the Leander affair?

Blockading French ports is one thing, "confusion to boney" and all that, but anchoring frigates right in New York harbor and indiscriminately shooting cannonballs at civilian shipping while they stop, board and search everything afloat for stuff and people to steal is a bit over the top.