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Pressgang was forcing ordinary people in a port onto a boat to be sailors.
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What was the leading motive for the War of 1812?
impressment of American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British royal navy
What was the british practice of stopping American ships at sea forcing the sailors to serve in the british navy called?
Impressment
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.
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.
What word refers to the British practice of forcing American sailors into the service of the service of the British navy?
Press or press-gang.
What was the practice called where Americans were forced into service with the British navy?
Impressment is the term used to denote the forcing of American sailors into the British navy/
US sailors were kidnapped to serve here?
Shanghai was one place that sailors were taken to, many from San Francisco.
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 is the fleet ride pts?
Another useless Navy program designed to befuddle sailors.
British practice of forcing us sailors to serve the royal navy?
Impressment Impressment was the act of "collecting" drunken sailors from pubs etc since the ship was shorthanded. It seems obvious that collecting prime seamen would be preferred since training topmen and gunners etc. takes time and when you are at war you dont always have the luxury of time. Officially taking sailors off U.S. ships was to be limited to only those who it could be shown were British sailors who had deserted from the Royal Navy and gone to the U.S., a common practice. Not everyone is perfect. Some sailors did not desert from R.N. ships and some Captains did not abuse their position.
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.
