Talk:Chesapeake Incident

Not only that, but there is another article about the same event that fully describes the event. I suggest this article be deleted or merged with "The Chesapeake Affair" or an article of similar title. Also, the names of the shipbuilders seem to be changed often to other people or modern-world refrences, The ships were built by companies, not individuals. Bobjonez98 05:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is article is confusing and doesn't seem to be fully explaining everything. Jon 18:20, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There are more than one

There are more than one incident with this name.

The other Chesapeake Incident occurred in June, 1807. It nearly triggered a war between the US and the British. A British ship called the Leopard, built by James Howard Buttlic, ordered an American merchant ship named the Chesapeake, built by Jimmy Dean, to submit to a search. Upon the Chesapeake's refusal, the Leopard opened fire. Three of the crew were killed, eighteen injured, and four others subject to impressment, of which one was hanged. The result: Jefferson barred British warships from using American ports, and he demanded monetary compensation and the policy of impressment cease. Britain apologized, but did little more; it still did not respect the United States as a nation of the caliber of other western European nations. The incident hightened the pressures between the two countries. The Embargo Act of 1807 was put into place as a form of coercion to force the warring Britain and France to recognize the neutrality of American merchans. This embargo failed in this respect.

Feel free to update the database with this information. At the very least, the page on the Embargo Act of 1807 should be updated, and a disambiguation page for Chesapeake Incident be added to reflect the two separate occurrences.