Show I THE BRITISH BLOCKADE On l 20 1813 years ao ago today Great Britain proclaimed a a. blockade of the Atlantic seaboard rd states tates It was as part of the to sin in tIle War of 1812 At first the coast of ew England England Eng Eng- land was as spared because its inhabItants inhabitants supposed by England to tobe he favorable to the BrItish caUse This supposition w was s soon dropped however and the was Ot- Ot tended from to the West est Indies Soon after BritaIn established a a. naval base at the mouth of resa CI-resa- Peake leake ba bay Am America rica was in no post post- tion to challenge the British at se se The most it could do about the Intrusion intrusion in- in was to darken all the lIghthouses lighthouses lIght lIght- houses house in the neIghborhood and thus place the enemy at as Inconvenience as possible A number of defenseless coaSt vii vii- ilta ta es were upon but New York and other large cities were we-e because the British feared mines and torpedoes Jn In tact fact tw t O ships ships' which too close o New York Tork missed being by narrow margIns and ser serve d as 33 examples to alt all the others |