Impressments [noun]

Every member and every servant of the Company was to be privileged against impressment and arrest.

The navy in time of war was recruited by impressment, a system which, though recognised by common law, entailed much hardship.

In this also Rhode Island bore her part, propping as best she might her tottering treasury and using impressment for raising men.

In the provisioning of the army the Confederate Government had recourse to impressment and the arbitrary fixing of prices.

Farmers who were compelled to accept the prices fixed by the impressment commissioners cried out that they were being ruined.

In such times the royal navy always relied, for its supply of men, upon impressment, especially of merchant seamen.

Time has been when the impressment of our seamen was cried out against by a large majority of Congress.

Upon the impressment of seamen, the subject was too delicate; she was fighting for her existence; she would yield nothing.

He would stop Americans from trading with the world—that would prevent the capture of our ships and the impressment of our seamen.

Under pressure of conflict, Great Britain increased her impressment of American sailors.