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 ...

Only half of the guests at Serhiy and Tania's wedding showed up. Many were trying to avoid conscription squads Dark storm clouds threatened to upend Serhiy and Tania’s beach wedding. But as the ...

The British practice of impressment, forcibly conscripting American sailors into the British navy, became a major source of tension. Madison worked with Jefferson to implement the Embargo Act of 1807, ...

An Act for the better preservation and improvement of the fishery within the river of Thames, [electronic resource] : and for regulating and governing the company of fishermen of the said river.

The end result was a navy that built an empire and truly ruled the waves. For the whole of this period impressment – the roving of press gangs round English towns conscripting men to serve – was ...