THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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To give aid to others
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To influence or persuade others to do something
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To take someone against their will, or kidnap
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To lead someone to a safe place
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prior to this Britain practiced a cruel but effective way of combating the manpower shortage in their navy: impressment. Impressment, or “press gang” as it was more commonly known, was recruitment by force. It was a practice that directly affected the U.S. and was even one of the causes of the War of 1812.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because voluntary enlistments could never satisfy the demand for sailors, the British resorted to the use of press gangs to forcibly place men into service. As many as half of all seamen manning the Royal Navy were impressed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S. Continental Navy also applied a form of impressment during the American War of Independence. The impressment of seamen from American ships caused serious tensions between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.