The British did board the colonist ships, because they were the colonists. The acts of impressment, when British naval soldiers would commandeer American merchant ships in order to force the sailors to fight under the British Crown against Napoleon did not occur until the early 1800s.
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Impressment
It's where sailors on American ships who were suspected of being British nationals trying to avoid service in the British navy were taken prisoner and pressed into service on British ships
Before 1807, it is estimated that around 6,000 American sailors were impressed into the British Navy. This practice of impressment, where British forces forcibly recruited sailors from American merchant ships, was a significant source of tension between the United States and Britain. It contributed to rising anti-British sentiment in the U.S. and was one of the factors leading up to the War of 1812.
The British Royal Navy were stopping American ships and taking sailors to be on the British crews.
The British did board the colonist ships, because they were the colonists. The acts of impressment, when British naval soldiers would commandeer American merchant ships in order to force the sailors to fight under the British Crown against Napoleon did not occur until the early 1800s.
They attacked British merchant ships
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Roger Villar has written: 'Merchant ships at war' -- subject(s): Armed merchant ships, British Naval operations, Falkland Islands War, 1982, Merchant ships
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Yes and it was called "impressment".
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Conditions on American ships were far superior to that of British ships.
The impressment occured because pay was better in the merchant fleet than in the British Navy, and conditions were less brutal. Captains of the British Navy were always looking for replacements, and if they could not fill their company at a home port by recruitment they would send the "press gangs" to attack and grab sailors to work on British ships for free. Between 1803 and 1812 6,000 American sailors were impressed by the British.
.The British interfered with shipping by Impressment - the kidnapping of American sailors to work on British ships.
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