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Why were the Americans upset about Britain's navy use of impressment?

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Americans claimed that the British were none too careful about who they removed from the boarded vessels, and that free sailors were impressed into British service along with deserters. Britain's insistence on pressing sailors into naval service sprang in part from its wars against Napoleon.

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