broken voyages

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The term or the process of broken voyages ( English "interrupted voyage") comes from the transatlantic sea trade at the time of the Napoleonic Wars (1804–1812). When continental European ports were closed to British merchant ships by the French continental blockade , the British sea power tried for its part to prevent the trade of neutral nations with Napoleonic France and the states it occupied (from 1807) by means of a counter blockade . In this way, both sides wanted to achieve the opponent's defeat through economic collapse and prevent trade with uninvolved states (especially the young US ) from benefiting the enemy.

It was precisely those American traders and their ships that have been seized by warships of the Royal Navy since the beginning of the war . H. stopped and searched because Great Britain banned the delivery and trade of goods of importance to the war effort ( contraband ) to enemy states in the waters it controls. This confiscation of French goods - not infrequently combined with the confiscation of entire ships - increasingly developed into a threat to the US economy. In this context, resourceful American sea traders came up with the idea of ​​interrupting their journey to tax French goods and goods destined for French satellite states in American ports in order to "Americanize" them so that they would not be confiscated by British authorities.