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While not named in the 1807 Orders in Council, the U.S. was the target since we insisted on trading with whatever country we chose. The order required any ship headed for a port in a country controlled by France to stop at an English port to be checked for military supplies. Those that did not could be seized by the Royal Navy, and the ship and cargo sold in an Admiralty Court.