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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European countries competed for colonies in central and East Africa because the amount of colonize-able land was limited, because there was fierce competition amongst the European powers, and because they sought to gain access to the raw resources and trade routes in/near these regions.
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Many legends were written about knights so that the accounts of the deeds of the knights remained in some or the other form and inspired the coming generations by describing how great the knights were.
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- The idea of writing legends served the purpose of keeping the knights alive forever in writings that speak about their greatness.
- Sometimes, the legends were also written on the orders of the knights that performed some kind of courageous deed.
- The ones who wrote the legends often exaggerated the deeds of the knights in order to make the legend articulate and impressive.
