The term and/or the procedure the "broken voyages" (English "interrupted journey") comes of the transatlantic maritime trade at present to the Napoleoni wars (1804-1812). When continental-European ports were closed by the French continental barrier for British trading vessels, the British sea power tried for its part the trade of neutral nations with the napoleonischen France to prevent and from it occupied states (starting from 1807) by a Gegenblockade. In this way both sides wanted the defeat of the opponent by economic collapse to reach and prevent that the trade with indifferent States of (above all the young USA) would be useful to the enemy.

Evenly those American dealers and their ships were applied since beginning of war ever more frequently by warships of the Royal Navy, i.e. continued and scanned, there Great Britain the supply and the trade of war-important goods (Konterbande) at enemy states in waters controlled by it forbade. This Konfiszierung of French commodity - pretty often connected with the Konfiszierung of whole ships - developed increasingly for threat for the US-American Wirtschaft.Findige US-American sea-dealers came in this context on the idea their journey to interrupt, in order to pay duty French and commodity intended for French satellite states in American ports, around it so quasi "amerikanisieren", so that she was not drawn in from British authorities.

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