Endnotes

1. In June 1807, H.M.S. Leopard fired on the U.S.S. Chesapeake and dispatched a boarding party in search of Royal Navy deserters. The incident caused outrage in the United States.

2. This boundary dispute along the New Brunswick-Maine border, also called the Aroostook War, led to partial mobilization of militia units on both sides. After clashes between lumbermen and hunters the dispute was resolved through diplomacy.

3. In November 1861, a US warship intercepted the British mail vessel Trent in neutral waters. A boarding party arrested two Confederate emissaries bound for Great Britain and France, touching off a diplomatic crisis. Further conflict was averted by the Lincoln administration’s unwillingness to provoke war with Britain in the midst of the US Civil War.