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To press, or pressing, both short for impressment, by Press Gangs of the Royal Navy. Common practice was to press any man at large in the street or in public houses. Pressed men would have their waistbands cut, so they would have to hold up their pants, making it difficult to flee.

In theory, this was no different from conscription of men into the army (the draft) that continues to be practiced in many countries. But it was one cause of the War of 1812, when British vessels stopped or seized American ships for impressment of the "British born" sailors. Some were in fact deserters from the British Navy, both before and after the Revolutionary War.

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Impressment or Press gang. Groups of men connected with the navy would befriend a young man in a tavern, get him drunk and when he woke up he would find himself aboard ship.

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