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War of 1812: North America
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Relatives of four deceased South Koreans who were forced laborers at a steel mill in northern Japan during World War Two failed on Wednesday to overturn a Japanese court decision refusing compensation for unpaid wages. Japan says the issue of wartime compensation claims with South Korea was settled in the 1965 treaty, which required Japan to pay $500 million in economic aid to South Korea.
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By definition a privateer is either the ship, the crew, or the captain of a vessel licensed by a particular government during times of war to prey on enemy ships. Canadian privateers played an important role in several wars, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most sailed from Nova Scotia because of its close proximity to the United States and the North Atlantic. Often considered little more than legal pirating, "by mid 1700s [privateering] was carefully regulated, respectable and as law abiding as the navy," according to Daniel Conlin, Curator of Marine History at the <a name="Maritime_Museum_of_the_Atlantic"><a href="http://maritime.museum.gov.ns.ca/">Maritime Museum of the Atlantic</a> in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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This lesson reviews the causes of the War of 1812 and introduces the Embargo Act of 1807, the declaration of war, and the impact of these events on American exports. The primary focus of the lesson, though, is on Baltimore's role in the war, from the Baltimore Clippers as privateers to the Battle of Baltimore and the writing of the Star Spangled Banner.
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Federal investigators say they have have recovered three paintings stolen from a German museum at the conclusion of World War Two. The FBI says the paintings, by Heinrich Burkel, are valued at 125,000 dollars and are among a group of about four dozen stolen on March 22nd, 1945, as Allied forces swept through Germany. In September 1945, the Pirmasens City Museum said about 50 paintings had “been lost during the arrival of the American troops” six months earlier.
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The war was likely the last time the British allowed privateering, since the practice was coming to be seen as politically inexpedient and of diminishing value in maintaining its naval supremacy. It was certainly the swansong of Bermuda's privateers, who returned to the practice with a vengeance after American lawsuits had put a stop to it two decades earlier. The nimble Bermuda sloops captured 298 enemy ships (the total captures by all British naval and privateering vessels between the Great Lakes and the West Indies was 1,593 vessels).
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This particular war began by the American declaration of war on June 18 of that year, and lasted till the beginning of 1815. The treaty of peace signed at Ghent on December 24, 1814 was ratified by President James Madison on February 17, 1815.
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