He must be satisfied of the necessity of the measure before he resorts to it. 2. He may authorize the impressment of male slaves between the ages of seventeen and fifty years, but before the 1st ...

The important role of women on board ship during the Royal Navy's heyday in the 1700s and 1800s has often been overlooked. As ...

This ultimately led to an embargo against Britain, which, combined with British armament of natives in the Midwest and impressment of American sailors, caused the War of 1812. It was a war that ...

Men and boys, especially seamen, were subject to impressment into the British armed forces. British soldiers quartered in Boston, New York and other cities took away scarce jobs from sailors ...

It also may have occasionally taken property in other ways, such as the temporary impressment of personal property for military purposes. But neither of these methods was commonplace. Hence ...

It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships’ logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told. It focuses on how mariner authors ...

His long-lasting, consistent commitment to the most pressing debates enflaming the Age of Revolution led him to question naval impressment and British repression in Ireland, the Napoleonic wars ...