| 31. | Impressment was essentially a Royal Navy practice, reflecting the size of the British fleet and its substantial manpower demands.
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| 32. | The U . S . Continental Navy did however apply a form of impressment during the American War of Independence.
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| 33. | Congress originally authorized the army to fund impressments either with in-kind payments or with the paper Continental currency.
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| 34. | Stemming from impressment disturbances, civil-naval relations deteriorated in Nova Scotia from 1805 to the War of 1812.
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| 35. | While the American public resented impressment, in particular with the " Chesapeake " " Leopard"
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| 36. | In 1703 an act passed limiting the impressment of men under 18 years of age to those who were not apprenticed.
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| 37. | The pamphlets contain an extreme statement of the anti-war party and defend impressment as a right of long standing.
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| 38. | During his early ministry he endured persecution including imprisonment and the impressment of several of his hearers into the Royal Navy.
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| 39. | The British Royal Navy, in particular, resorted to impressment, forcing thousands of American seamen into service on their warships.
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| 40. | The British infringed more and also impressed thousands of American sailors into the Royal Navy; France never did anything like impressment.
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