impressment

• But in 1794 impressment was a negotiable question, because we were not ready to go to war about it then and there. —  George Washington, Vol. II
• It included the questions of impressment, the fisheries, the boundaries, and indemnity for slaves. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
• The right of impressment--the original cause of war, was neither affirmed nor disclaimed, though since that date England has never attempted to use it. —  A History of the United States
• But as the impressment was abandoned by England, the war had not been waged wholly in vain In the year that followed upon the Battle of Waterloo, Sheridan died. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
• The same men who had cursed Adams for avoiding war with France easily framed excuses for orders in council, impressment, and the Chesapeake affair Apart from Randolph and the few opposition Republicans, mostly in New York, this Thersites band had its seat in commercial New England, where embargo and war of course sat hardest, more than a sixth of our entire tonnage belonging to Massachusetts alone. —  History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)

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