Forced naval service with or without notice.
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Examples for "impressment"
Examples for "impressment"
1On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.
2The subjects of impressment and blockades were not embraced in it.
3The impressment of seamen continued and was the source of daily increasing abuse.
4The reports of the impressment operations only came down to May.
5But the system of impressment is no respecter either of pity or person.
1A far more unpopular measure was the introduction of military and naval conscription in 1811.
1No press gang ever ventured into an area of quality and wealth.
2She'll be leading him straight into the hands of a press gang!
3The press gang of the National Capital was all at sea.
4But the press gang harvested its greatest crop of seamen on the seas.
5But the press gang took him and a dozen others late this afternoon.
1"Monsieur le Commissaire" of the Naval Enlistment Office was not in just then.
Translations for naval enlistment