State of Vermont Roster of Soldiers in the War of 1812-14

Napoleon, dominating Europe after the tremendous battle of Austerlitz in 1805, issued decrees declaring the continent closed to British goods, and ordered all vessels seized that touched at a British port. England, still master of the seas when Admiral Nelson shattered the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar in October of the same year, retaliated by seizing all merchant vessels which did not touch at British ports; and in consequence American ocean trade, caught between these two order s, was so heavily reduced that in 1808-1809, President Madison tried by desperate diplomacy to bribe England and France to bid against each other for our trade.

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ROSTER WAR 1812-14