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What effect did the Royal Navy’s strategy of impressment have on the War of 1812?

It increased the size of the Royal Navy.
It promoted a system for naval battles in the Atlantic Ocean.
It eliminated the need to draft people into the Continental Army.
It decreased the size of the French Navy.

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number one it increased the size of the Royal navy

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Answer: It increased the size of the Royal Navy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Britain's Royal Navy had many sailors resorting to desertion due to the poor conditions they faced there.

Many of them ended up working on American merchant ships, and the practice of Impressment refers to how British officers would board American ships to seize any deserters, in order to avoid manpower shortage in their ships.

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