Ambassadors' Notes are commentaries added by the original founders of the Thomas Jackson letters and are intended to add context to the transcription that proceeds them. Other comments by visitors may have been offered in Recent Research and Commentaries in the seventh panel of the homepage.

Ambassadors’ Notes

This long letter was directed to express disagreement with an earlier letter writer who had described England’s naval actions against America as a “paper blockade”. TJ provides evidence for his understanding that, after America had declared war on England in 1812, the English war navy had caused great damage to America in 1813-1815 and in the end America had to sue for “a dishonorable peace, having effectively gained nothing” from all the previous years fighting.