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- Title
The Right of Search Controversies, 1839-1842 and 1857-1858.
- Authors
Carlisle, Rodney
- Abstract
The article considers nineteenth-century foreign relations between the U.S. and Great Britain over issues of maritime law, focusing especially on the "Right of Search" incidents in which British Royal Navy vessels searched ships of the American merchant fleet in times of peace. While the search of American vessels and impressment of American sailors was the major cause of the War of 1812, Great Britain also boarded American ships later in the century, leading to incidents between 1939 and 1842 as well as in 1858 and 1859. Other topics include the slave trade, ships' rights to fly national flags, and the Aroostook War controversy.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; RIGHT of search; JURISDICTION over ships at sea; FLAGS -- Law &; legislation; MARINE protests; DIPLOMATIC history; MARITIME law; SLAVE trade; AROOSTOOK War, 1839; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord, 2012, Vol 22, Issue 4, p409
- ISSN
1183-112X
- Publication type
Article