impressment

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When impressments continued and the Orders in Council remained, Madison asked for war on June 1, 1812.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

From the debates on the subject of our seamen, I am afraid as much harm as good will be done by our endeavors to arm our seamen against impressments.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Mr. Seddon is vexed at the unpopularity of the recent impressments by his order.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

A revenue was scarcely less necessary than an army, and it was obvious that the means for carrying on the war must be obtained either by impressments or by a vigorous course of taxation.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by Schroeder, John Frederick

Captures at once began; English frigates were stationed outside the port of New York, and vessels coming in and going out were insolently stopped and searched; impressments were revived.

From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Hart, Albert Bushnell