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The way the navy was treated was poor so they escaped the British navy to join the Americans but the British know this so the stopped ships to take back the escaped soldiers but took American sailors to.
They wanted to disable American navel power and to gain new sailors for their many ships.
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∙ 14y agoNo, the Royal Navy pressed American ships for British sailors who had deserted the Royal Navy. Occaisonally they made a mistake and pressed a legitimate, card carrying American by mistake. The English Parliament dropped this practice before the War of 1812 started, but the War happened anyway.....
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∙ 11y agoThe British navy did not really care who they impressed as long as they had sufficient men to serve on their ships. Generally men between the ages of 18 - 45 were taken. The impressment of seamen from American ships did cause serious difficulties between Great Britain and America, after 1814 the practice ceased.
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British practice of boarding American ships and seizing sailors for service in the British navy?
impressment
Why did British ships attack American ships in 1812?
They technically didn't attack the ships. What they did was impress the American sailors into the British Navy. This means that they captured American sailors and forced them to join the British Navy and fight the French (Napoleon).
What did the British navy's use for impressment?
Gee, I don't know. Maybe the ones controlling this website should answer this, and not having the ones(who don't even know the answer)to do it instead. WIKI Answers, do your job!
Why did thomas jefferson resist building a larger navy to fight british impressement of American sailors?
Jefferson did not want to raise taxes and did not want a large navy.
What is an impressed sailor?
In Britian, a sailor who was kidnapped by a Press Gang for military service was said to have been impressed. The British Navy was often short of men to man their ships of war. They would muster a 'press gang' and take a trip into the seedier parts of ports. There they would 'impress' man to work on the ship. It was basically a matter of kidnapping. If they were lucky, they got seasoned sailors from merchant ships, or past service in the Navy. Sometimes they got bums that didn't have a clue what to do on a ship and had to be taught the ropes.
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 were sailors deserting the british navy to join the american navy-?
Conditions on American ships were far superior to that of British ships.
When England was forcing US sailors to work in the british navy this was called?
Americans were angered by the British practice of impressment which American sailors were forced into the British navy.
Why did the british seize American sailors?
In the relatively brief interval between the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Britain had not fully accepted that America had become an independent nation rather than a British colony, and it seized American sailors in order to impress them (or draft them, as we would say in more modern language) into the British navy, which was always in need of more sailors.
Why did the British ships seize American sailors?
In the relatively brief interval between the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Britain had not fully accepted that America had become an independent nation rather than a British colony, and it seized American sailors in order to impress them (or draft them, as we would say in more modern language) into the British navy, which was always in need of more sailors.
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailor into the service of the British navy?
Impressment is forcing American sailors into joining the British Navy.
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailors into service of the British navy?
Impressment is forcing American sailors into joining the British Navy.
British practice of boarding American ships and seizing sailors for service in the British navy?
impressment
When American sailors were taken captive and made to work in the british navy?
impressment
Why did British ships seize American ships?
In the relatively brief interval between the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Britain had not fully accepted that America had become an independent nation rather than a British colony, and it seized American sailors in order to impress them (or draft them, as we would say in more modern language) into the British navy, which was always in need of more sailors.
What was one of the causes of the War of 1812?
The British were seizing American sailors and making them serve in the British Navy.
What action contributed to the beginning of the war of 1812?
Impressment of American sailors into the British navy
