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(175) Otherwise, Judge Cadwalader believed, a government "previously republican" with armies raised under a draft and impressment "administered without any restriction as to persons liable to serve" and "without any limitation of the time of service" would be at the "will of the chief executive" and establish a "military government." (176) However, these observations about the constitutional limitations on Judge Cadwalader did not cause him to declare the Conscription Act unconstitutional.

Fields explained: "This teaching was delivered within the context of first-century Palestine under Roman occupation in which impressment was common; i.e., a Roman soldier conscripting someone to carry his equipment.

(14) When a new round of impressment required bearing loads to Morogoro, a site about 150 miles away, the clergyman argued that this filled the people with despair, and made them lose their faith because they "dread[ed] dying away from their land and friends, and this has entered into their hearts throughout the country." (15) Here we might gain an insight into local conceptions of landscape at the time: perhaps this passage reveals the shallowness of the Anglicans' intended spiritual transformation of the Valley, because the comforts of "home" had already been reduced by the war.

(39) These operations did not have a military objective; rather, their sole purpose was "to protect the desertion of the Black Population." (40) Taylor uses these episodes to allude to an irony of history: during a war started because of their impressment of Americans, the British Empire and Crown--not the newly formed democracy of the United States--found themselves on the right side of liberty and equality for all men.

impressment of goods to support a war effort by nominal governments that

Written by award winning children's author Donna McDine, "Powder Monkey" is a thumbnail sketch of the impressment experience of 12-year-old Tommy Kitt who was taken by force with his older brother from his parents' farm by a Royal Navy press gang to serve as a powder monkey and ship boy in a battleship at sea.

Yet these modern advancements contrasted with the recruiting needs of the NVA which required harsh impressment tactics to build the necessary manpower to launch the North Vietnamese invasion.

I had come to London primarily to correlate Admiralty records concerning impressment of American seamen with events that my research had turned up in American sources.

The indexing of impressment, Black Hawk War, Whig Party, and Jean Lafitte directs readers to significant sections of text.

In British law, they were still Britons, and, hence, subject to impressment. In 1797, Rufus King, the American minister to Great Britain, received a lecture from Great Britain's foreign secretary, Lord Grenville, on the matter:

fought Britain ostensibly over impressment and mercantile issues, but their immediate objective was to envelope Canada in the republican fold, extending the revolution north into Canada and west over native land.

The focus of the article is on Chinese military practices related to this campaign, including military leadership and organization, the impressment and treatment of soldiers, and even what appears to be an ingenious method of identifying soldiers by linking each one to a yangren-a soldier who resembled the other and so could be used for purposes of identification.

anger at impressment of sailors and British trade restrictions as the main causes of the war.

ONE of the most disturbing scenes in the Henriad is Falstaff's unabashedly cynical use of his power of military impressment. As he acknowledges, he pockets "three hundred and odd pounds" (1 Henry IV 4.2.14) by accepting money from men who want to avoid the conscription and can afford the bribe.