31. Impressment was essentially a Royal Navy practice, reflecting the size of the British fleet and its substantial manpower demands.32. The U . S . Continental Navy did however apply a form of impressment during the American War of Independence. 33. Congress originally authorized the army to fund impressments either with in-kind payments or with the paper Continental currency. 34. Stemming from impressment disturbances, civil-naval relations deteriorated in Nova Scotia from 1805 to the War of 1812. 35. While the American public resented impressment , in particular with the " Chesapeake " " Leopard" 36. In 1703 an act passed limiting the impressment of men under 18 years of age to those who were not apprenticed. 37. The pamphlets contain an extreme statement of the anti-war party and defend impressment as a right of long standing. 38. During his early ministry he endured persecution including imprisonment and the impressment of several of his hearers into the Royal Navy. 39. The British Royal Navy, in particular, resorted to impressment , forcing thousands of American seamen into service on their warships. 40. The British infringed more and also impressed thousands of American sailors into the Royal Navy; France never did anything like impressment .
