Pub be the oldest surviving establishment in the United Kingdom, although in several cases original buildings have been demolished and replaced on the same site. Others are ancient buildings that were used for purposes other than as a pub previously in their history. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th-century structure on an 8th-century site. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham is claimed to be the "oldest inn in England". It has a claimed date of 1189, based on the fact it is
Opposition to the War of 1812 in Britain the U.S. alone made up more than half the cotton imports to Britain in the years leading up to the War of 1812. British opposition coalesced around the Orders in Council. Part of the larger maritime war with France, the Orders were intended to choke off French trade with the rest of world. The policy especially affected the neutral United States, which claimed it should be able to trade with both nations, since it was a neutral party in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While many in Britain saw the opposition to impressment as nothing more than whining, more sectors