| The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas. |
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| Indeed, the North Koreans knew that they had much to answer for regarding their impressment, murder, and kidnapping of South Koreans. |
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| Through the 19th century there was a gradual decline in the practice of impressment. |
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| The last conflict between Britain and the USA began when the British blockade of Napoleonic Europe and naval impressment of American sailors inflamed relations. |
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| Unable to buy supplies, military commanders resorted to impressment of food and animals, undermining civilian morale and burdening farmers nearest the troops. |
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| Simultaneous with the Napoleonic Wars, trade disputes and British impressment of American sailors led to the War of 1812 with the United States. |
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| State sponsored, or military impressment was entirely different in the Atlantic World when compared to impressment in the world of piracy. |
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| According to Paul Gilje, impressment was used by England as a way to deny liberty to those who called the colonies home. |
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| It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment. |
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| The Gbaya resisted French forces throughout the colonial period, notably in the early 1920s, because of the brutal impressment of Gbaya men and women as porters and labourers. |
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| No mention was made in the peace settlement of neutral rights, particularly concerning the impressment of seamen one of the prime reasons the United States had gone to war. |
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| In practice, however, impressment of indigenous peoples under the earlier system continued in spite of additional royal prohibitive legislation in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| Although she had many young men still to draft, she could not conscript them and did not dare to resort to the impressment Frederick had done. |
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| This meant that in addition to recovering naval deserters, it considered any United States citizens who were born British liable for impressment. |
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| The Treaty of Ghent failed to secure official British acknowledgement of American maritime rights or ending impressment. |
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| The issue of impressment was made moot when the Royal Navy, no longer needing sailors, stopped impressment after the defeat of Napoleon. |
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| With the abdication of Napoleon, the blockade of France ended and the British ceased impressment, rendering the issue of the impressment of American sailors moot. |
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| Simultaneous with the Napoleonic Wars, trade disputes, arming hostile Indians and British impressment of American sailors led to the War of 1812 with the United States. |
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| Problems manning the Royal Navy also led to Pitt to introduce the Quota System in 1795 addition to the existing system of Impressment. |
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