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Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the forced conscription of men into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation and physical coercion, conducted by an organized group (hence "gang"). European navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. The large size of the British
Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993.
- Lewis Rudd
- 43 (list of episodes)
- 16 January 1989 –, 21 May 1993
Britain’s ports and harbours were once menaced by the dreaded press gangs. Impressment, to give it its proper name, was the scourge of maritime communities across the British Isles and Britain’s North American colonies for 150 years from 1664–1830…. Alistair Lee.
Learn about the practice of press gangs in the Royal Navy and Army during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the parliamentary acts that authorized or regulated it. Find out how press gangs were used in wartime and peacetime, and how they affected ordinary people.
3. Aug. 2021 · Press-ganging was the practice of forcibly recruiting sailors into the Royal Navy in times of war. Learn about its history, legality, and impact on British naval power and society.
- Tim Weinberg
Impressment was the compulsory recruitment of men to the Navy by parties of seamen commanded by officers, known as a 'press gang'. It was legally based on the royal right to call all men for military service and later confirmed by many legal opinions. Impressment lasted until the end of the Napoleonic Wars because the administrative resources ...
Few topics of eighteenth-century history have engaged both historians and the general public with such fervour yet have been depicted with less accuracy than impressment.¹ Today, press gangs are probably the first thing most people think of when confronted with naval recruiting in the age of sail.
