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W1/3749-3876
Title
Orders in Council
Date free text
1780-1813
Production date
From: 1780 To: 1813
Scope and Content
A series of decrees made by the Privy Council in the course of the wars with Napoleonic France, which instituted a policy of trade restriction. In the Atlantic, the Orders in Council were one of the main sources of tension between the United Kingdom and the United States which led to the War of 1812.
W1/2912
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