99 examples of impressment in sentences

It looks as if those States, having built up a flourishing trade with Great Britain, cared little about the impressment of sailors, or the enslaving of their countrymen, so long as they filled their own pockets.

Though the treaty of peace was not satisfactory in many particulars, it more clearly defined the lines between the United States and British possessions in America, leaving the fishery question and the right to search and impressment in an unsettled condition, giving the "Peace Party" an opportunity to say, "I told you so.

This was the British claim to the right of impressment.

In 1803, the difficulty had nearly been adjusted by a convention, Great Britain agreeing to abandon her claim to impressment on the high seas, if allowed to retain it on the narrow seas, or those immediately surrounding her island; but this being rejected as inadmissible by the United States, all subsequent efforts at an arrangement proved unsuccessful.

The impressment of seamen continued and was the source of daily increasing abuse.

"It's a cruiser, and that means to heave to; but blow my eyes if I do it!" cried the captain, who was opposed to search and impressment.

He began telling them a most horrible story of the impressment of himself and his friends by a British vessel and of their recent escape.

Friends, relatives and neighbors, hearing of the sudden return of Fernando, all gathered on that evening, and the youth told the sad story of his impressment and slavery.

The story of the impressment, service and sufferings of Fernando Stevens and his friends are no exaggerations.

Their great need of men might have been some excuse for impressment of Americans; but there was a spice of hatred in their cruel treatment of the unfortunate sailors.

He urged Terrence to give a detailed account of his impressment and captivity.

They were constantly guilty of such offences as the impressment of our seamen, paper blockades, haughty dictation, and insolent treatment of our envoys, having an eye all the while to the future dismemberment of the States, and the rich slices of territory both were likely to acquire in the South and West.

By 13 George II, c. 17, exemption from impressment was granted to 'every person, being a foreigner, who shall serve in any merchant ship, or other trading vessel or privateer belonging to a subject of the Crown of Great Britain.'

Exemptions by custom probably originated at a very remote date: ferrymen, for example, being everywhere privileged from impressment.

In practice this must have reduced the numbers liable to impressment to small dimensions.

The description in TheNavalChronicle might be applied to events whichwhen impressment had ceased for half a centuryoccurred over and over again at Portsmouth, Devonport, and other ports when two or three ships happened to be put in commission about the same time.

TheTimes of the 11th March 1803, and 9th May 1803, also contained reports of the impressment operations.

DECEMBER 5, 1803, To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the desire of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 22d of November, on the impressment of seamen in the service of the United States by the agents of foreign nations, I now lay before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of State with a specification of the cases of which information has been received. TH.

On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.

[Footnote 23: Relating to the impressment of seamen from the United States whale ship Addison at Valparaiso, and imprisonment of William A. Stewart, an American citizen, at Valparaiso on the charge of murder, and on conviction released by Chilean authorities.

But almost as striking are his views on the impressment problem and the provocations to the War of 1812; wherein he leads to the most unexpected deduction,namely, that the grievances on both sides were much greater than is generally supposed.

Even at that early moment Parliament was evidently perplexed, and would willingly have yielded had it seen means of escape from its naval fetich, impressment.

Perhaps the perplexity was more evident in the Commons than in the Lords; for Castlereagh, while defending his own course with elaborate care, visibly stumbled over the right of impressment.

In about three weeks from the date of his impressment Mason found himself serving in the Mediterranean on board the "Active" frigate, Captain Alexander Gordon, without having been permitted one opportunity of communicating with the shore.

Hudson, Henry. Impressment.

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