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im·pres·sive
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adj.
evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill: grand, imposing, or awesome:
an impressive view of the mountains
impressive achievements in science.
DERIVATIVES:
im·pres·sive·ly
adv.
im·pres·sive·ness
n.
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The Knowles Atlantic impressment riots of the 1740s.(Admiral Charles Knowles)(Era overview)
Magazine article from: Early American Studies; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the most spectacular series of impressment riots in the eighteenth century...disturbances showed that even while impressment helped to forge a common English...particular seaports. Yet, if impressment riots in the British Isles...
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The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 442 words
; 9781847144683 The press gang; naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain. Rogers, Nicholas. Continuum Publishing Group 2007 168 pages $29.95 Paperback VA545...
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THE STATE DUMA RATIFIED THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF NOVEMEBR 8 1990 ABOUT "THE WASHING", REVELATION, IMPRESSMENT AND CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL REVENUES, S
News Wire article from: A&G Information Services; 4/30/2001; 220 words
; ...30-2001 THE STATE DUMA RATIFIED THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF NOVEMEBR 8 1990 ABOUT "THE WASHING", REVELATION, IMPRESSMENT AND CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL REVENUES, SIGNED ON BEHALF OF RF IN BUDAPEST ON MAY 7 1999 ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, (A...
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FEDERATION COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY (138 VOTES) RATIFIED THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF NOVEMEBR 8 1990 ABOUT "THE WASHING, REVELATION, IMPRESSMENT AND C
News Wire article from: A&G Information Services; 5/28/2001; 221 words
; ...COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY (138 VOTES) RATIFIED THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF NOVEMEBR 8 1990 ABOUT "THE WASHING, REVELATION, IMPRESSMENT AND CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL REVENUES, SIGNED ON BEHALF OF RF IN BUDAPEST ON MAY 7 1999 ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, (A...
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Document tells of desperate efforts to intercept Sherman.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/9/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...approval, I shall proceed under the Impressment Act, and shall require service for...the agent stands ready to use the Impressment Act to force compliance while adding...area around La Grange was spared. The impressment document survived and ultimately found...
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A Miserable War
Magazine article from: Literary Review of Canada; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...destruction instead of British naval impressment, Bush instead of Madison, Rumsfeld...Tensions rose when London enacted impressment, a law enabling British ships to board...could to compound the furor against impressment with the alleged Indian-British conspiracy...
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The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the Americas. Beattie focuses on the policies of military impressment, recruitment and drafting, as well as the conflicts over...inducted. Beyond its role in controlling criminality, military impressment was a tool employed by rural political bosses for punishing...
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Every Man Will Do His Duty
Magazine article from: Naval War College Review; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...factual accounts contain details about flogging or avoiding impressment, for example, that would only rarely be found in fictional...but powerful motive: to persuade readers of the evils of impressment or flogging, or to impress readers with the bravery and...
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PORTSMOUTH PLAYED A BIG PART IN BIRTH OF OUR NATION'S NAVY.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/4/1997; 700+ words
; ...years of inaction, the issue of freedom of the seas and impressment of American seamen began to take the forefront again. And...and searched for British deserters in 1807, the issue of impressment of American seamen into the Royal Navy became a rallying...
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VOA NEWS: 1812 CONFLICT MARKED 2ND U.S. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...and forced them into service. "It was something called 'impressment,'" explains historian Jack Langguth, "where the British...declaration of war signaled America's intention to put an end to impressments and other British provocations like support for anti-American...
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impressment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
impressment forcible enrollment of recruits for military duty. Before...countries supplemented their militia and mercenary troops by impressment. In England, impressment began as early as the Anglo-Saxon period and was used extensively...
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Impressment of Seamen
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
IMPRESSMENT OF SEAMEN IMPRESSMENT OF SEAMEN was one of the chief causes of bad relations between...American ships in British ports, the real issue concerned the impressment of seamen on the high seas. The American merchant marine, prospering...
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Impressment, Confederate
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
IMPRESSMENT, CONFEDERATE IMPRESSMENT, CONFEDERATE. From the early part of the Civil War, the Confederate War Department practiced impressment, seizing supplies from producers and appropriating slaves for...
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Impressment Act
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Impressment Act an 1863 act of the Confederacy allowing its agents to seize food and property for the war effort, compensating the suppliers with below-market prices. It was subject to widespread abuse and fraud and contributed to divisions within the South.
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Press Gang
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...never devised an orderly procedure for impressment, or conscription, for naval service...However, Great Britain stepped up impressment efforts in the early nineteenth century...in the Napoleonic Wars. When British impressment was applied to American merchantmen...
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