"Impressment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has only had one struggle hitherto for its existence—Enthusiasm at the commencement of the war—Indifference towards its close—Difficulty of establishing military conscription or impressment of seamen in America—Why a democratic people is less capable of sustained effort ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... they neither resisted nor seriously remonstrated against it. Other causes of dispute arose from the determination of the British government to exclude the Americans from the blockaded ports of France, and from that inexhaustible source of quarrel, the impressment of British seamen from American vessels, especially as the difficulty of distinguishing British from American seamen led occasionally to the impressment of American native born citizens. In June, 1807, occurred ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper |
