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What Is Impressment

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What is impressment?


A) A British effort to convince their opponents that they were wrong.
B) The British policy of seizing American sailors who had defected to the French during the Napoleonic Wars.
C) The French policy of forcing all nations to impress their soldiers into the French army.
D) The American policy of seizing seamen from bars and brothels and forcing them to join the navy.
E) The seizure of purported British sailors from American merchant ships, and pressing them into service.

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