1) Impress 2) Seizure
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1) Impress
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Impressment, colloquially, `the press` or the `press gang`, refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. The large size of the British Royal Navy in the Age of sail meant impressment was most commonly associated with Britain. It was used by ...
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[Nova Scotia] Impressment by the Royal Navy in Nova Scotia happened primarily during the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Guard boats patrolled Halifax harbour day and night and they boarded all incoming and outgoing vessels. The Navy always struggled with desertion in Nova Scotia, and it often threatened to use impressment as a...
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• (n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
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enforcement of military or naval service on able-bodied but unwilling men through crude and violent methods. Until the early 19th century this ... [1 related articles]
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System of forced conscription, often of the poor or destitute, into the armed forces, particularly the Royal Navy, employed in the 18th and 19th centuries. In effect it was a form of kidnapping...
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Im·press'ment noun The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the
impressment of provisions or of sailors. « The great scandal of our naval service --
impressment -- died a protracted death.»
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the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
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