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British practice of forcing us sailors to serve the royal navy?
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∙ 14y ago
Impressment
Impressment was the act of "collecting" drunken sailors from pubs etc since the ship was shorthanded. It seems obvious that collecting prime seamen would be preferred since training topmen and gunners etc. takes time and when you are at war you dont always have the luxury of time. Officially taking sailors off U.S. ships was to be limited to only those who it could be shown were British sailors who had deserted from the Royal Navy and gone to the U.S., a common practice. Not everyone is perfect. Some sailors did not desert from R.N. ships and some Captains did not abuse their position.
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What was the leading motive for the War of 1812?
impressment of American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British royal navy
Why were sailors deserting the British Navy. To join the American navy?
Conditions in the Royal Navy were awful, which lead some sailors to desert the British navy and join the American navy. Many American sailors were taken hostage by the British.
Why did the U.S. declare war on Britain rather than France?
The reason that the US went to war with Britain is 1812 is because the British were capturing American merchant sailors and then forcing them into service in the Royal Navy. They also were seizing the cargo to keep it out of the hands of the French.
Why were sailors deserting the british navy to join the american navy-?
Conditions on American ships were far superior to that of British ships.
What term describes the british policy of taking Americans sailors and forcing them to work on british ships?
Impressment, colloquially, "the Press", refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and without notice. It was used by the Royal Navy, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th and early 19th centuries, in wartime, as a means of crewing warships, although legal sanction for the practice goes back to the time of Edward I of England. The Royal Navy impressed many merchant sailors, as well as some sailors from other nations. People liable to impressment were eligible men of seafaring habits between the ages of 18 and 45 years.Non-seamen were impressed as well, though rarely.Wiki
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The British Royal Navy were stopping American ships and taking sailors to be on the British crews.
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