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Significados de press gang en inglés
Forced naval service with or without notice.
Sinónimos
Examples for "impressment"
Examples for "impressment"
1
On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.
2
The subjects of impressment and blockades were not embraced in it.
3
The impressment of seamen continued and was the source of daily increasing abuse.
4
The reports of the impressment operations only came down to May.
5
But the system of impressment is no respecter either of pity or person.
1
A far more unpopular measure was the introduction of military and naval conscription in 1811.
1
"Monsieur le Commissaire" of the Naval Enlistment Office was not in just then.
Uso de press gang en inglés
1
No press gang ever ventured into an area of quality and wealth.
2
She'll be leading him straight into the hands of a press gang!
3
The press gang of the National Capital was all at sea.
4
But the press gang harvested its greatest crop of seamen on the seas.
5
But the press gang took him and a dozen others late this afternoon.
6
It must be a conscriptors' gang, the land equivalent of a naval press gang.
7
They had been seized by the press gang and made slaves on board the frigate.
8
He had not waited to be taken by a press gang, but had walked into Redruth and volunteered.
9
Pirates sometimes press gang captured crews.
10
Men who could walk free without fear of a press gang, or the misery of returning home crippled and unwanted.
11
He would have made a splendid man-o'-war's man, and the press gang had more than once tried to secure him.
12
The press gang had found at least one victim who would awake with a bloody head aboard the Thames guardship.
13
He could barely stop himself shaking as he turned and saw the press gang poised on the corner he had just come around.
14
The Press Gang includes reminiscences from many of its former journalists.
15
In 1993, when Press Gang ended, Fletcher barely had anything left.
16
Wild Bill, starring Press Gang's Charlie Creed-Miles, drew much from his formative experiences.