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1 He opened it with much impressment—assumed, of course—and showed a great bundle of white flowers.

2 To offset these new restrictions, bounties were to be given on naval stores produced in the colonies and shipped to England and in 1707 colonial seamen were exempted from impressment in the royal navy.

3 Outraged by British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, he banged the drum for war, declaring that “the liberty of our sailors and their redemption from slavery” were at stake.

4 And to prevent the need of impressment, the Government did well in establishing the Royal Naval Reserve.

5 These were the affair of the “Caroline,” that of the “Creole,” and the question of impressment.

6 It’s far worse to compare the Trump administration’s actions to Tuesday’s mostly rosy rhetoric, and to conclude that the impressment of those rituals, those locales, was anything but sincere.

7 For this purpose he ordered an impressment of transportation in Nashville and the vicinity, making a clean sweep of every thing that ran on wheels.

8 On the contrary the question of impressment is made the basis of continuing the war.

9 Monroe, in conjunction with Mr. Pinckney, our minister to England, sent back a treaty which contained no reference whatever to the matter of impressments.

10 The days of the corvée were now passed, and harsh impressment no longer compelled the habitant to fight on short rations and without pay.

11 Wilt see that it is exempted from impressment?

12 General Wentworth called a meeting of the Council on 23rd November, and it was ordered that the Solicitor-General should proceed to prosecute all persons belonging to the ships war who had been engaged in impressments.

13 The European Commission’s impressment of the insurance industry to fund infrastructure sounds like predatory behavior.

14 A committee from the Boston town meeting, going in eleven chaises to Bernard at his country seat, secured from him a promise to stop impressments, and a statement of his desire for conciliation.

15 Jefferson’s accession to the presidency coincided with demands for higher payments and the impressment of a U.S. Navy frigate, the USS George Washington, by the Dey of Algiers as a courier vessel.

16 These distinctive tattoos were then recorded in their personal Seamen’s Protection Certificates, which were used as identification and to help stave off impressment.

17 Forcible impressment to naval service was the worst that could befall the traders' men.

18 I told him that I had hired him to Athens for such a price, and that I had saved him from impressment, and consequent loss of wages, by the soldiers, which he admitted.

19 But the impressment of American citizens, massacres in the north, and outrages along the sea coast, so aroused the national indignation, that both words and efforts became powerless before it.

20 Several riots on the wharves having occurred in consequence of the press, proclamation was issued demolishing all impressments except under the sanction of the Governor and Council.

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