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Royal Navy warships frequently sent armed press gangs into Halifax and other Nova Scotian towns, where they occasionally fought with local townspeople. [1] Such incidents were often violent and a ...

The guisarme weapon, in a part of the painting by Pinturicchio (1502–1509). The Impressment (the taking of men into the military by compulsion) in Europe, who were known to make use of polearms ...

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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 ...

The museum's manuscript resources for researching impressment and press gangs are listed below under the eight manuscript sections used by the museum and give reference number, brief description and ...

In the desperate war against Napoleon, the British believed that they could not afford to abandon impressment and that offending the Americans was seen as a much lesser evil than losing to Napoleon.

The fact is that impressment goes back to remote feudal times and forward to the twentieth century, when it is called conscription or national service and the methods of implementing it are both more ...

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 ...

It was, however, a practice which Parliament had first sanctioned several centuries earlier. In time of war impressment – as the practice was known – was also a tactic employed by the Army to acquire ...

One of the main reasons for the hostile relationship between the two nations was the British practice of impressment, whereby ...