Americans were angered by the British practice of impressment which American sailors were forced into the British navy.
Impressment
its also called impressment .
Impressment is the term used to denote the forcing of American sailors into the British navy/
British sailors were issued lime juice as a remedy for scurvy.
The practice of capturing sailors and forcing them to serve on a ship from another country is called impressment. This was a common practice during times of war or conflict when one country needed more sailors for their navy.
impressment
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Yes and it was called "impressment".
Not sure if this is specific to modern warfare, it mostly happened in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It is called Impressment.
if they came from anywhere but England they wouldn't be called british.
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
The British navy needed sailors and began taking them off American vessels by force in a procedure called impressment or "press ganging." This was because British seamen often deserted.