Indeed, the North Koreans knew that they had much to answer for regarding their impressment, murder, and kidnapping of South Koreans. |
The last conflict between Britain and the USA began when the British blockade of Napoleonic Europe and naval impressment of American sailors inflamed relations. |
This day is memorable for the impressment of seamen into the British service. |
The most serious difficulty in the way of negotiation had been the question of impressment. |
The Gbaya resisted French forces throughout the colonial period, notably in the early 1920s, because of the brutal impressment of Gbaya men and women as porters and labourers. |
Through the 19th century there was a gradual decline in the practice of impressment. |