| 1. | Outbound merchant ships, officers and apprentices were exempt from impressment.
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| 2. | Therefore, no concessions on the issue of impressment were made.
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| 3. | There was trouble in Washington with the British over impressments of American sailors.
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| 4. | The impressment policy of quartermasters ran the rails ragged.
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| 5. | Brodhead had made impressment ( the forced sale of supplies ) a policy.
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| 6. | Impressment caused socio-economic problems to Nova Scotia.
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| 7. | In many cases, Ottoman crews practiced impressment to fill their ships'complements.
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| 8. | All Sea Fencibles received a certificate that exempted them from impressment into the Navy.
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| 9. | Some ancient prisons, like plantations or the Royal Navy ( under impressment ).
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| 10. | Generally, impressment victims were young men from poor and middle-class backgrounds.
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