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The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.
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On October 26, 1776, exactly one month to the day after being named an agent of a diplomatic commission by the Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin sets sail from Philadelphia for France, with which he was to negotiate and secure a formal alliance and treaty.
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The Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war. Since the first declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812, Congress has declared war on 10 other occasions, including the last formal declaration of war with Rumania in 1942.
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