My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
I for Impressment (2015).
One of the many causes of the War of 1812, Impressment by the Royal Navy was resolved by the end. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, Britain ended the practice, although conscription continued to cover all British armed forces. Gregory Wendell, the author of the diary in ‘Seeking A Knife’in my Snowdon Shadows series, is an RN officer so sees impressment first hand.
How much do you know about the War of 1812? When I studied British history in the UK, it was a footnote to the Napoleonic Wars. But now I’m learning, initiated by spending a few years in Canada.
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Hmmm…this makes me feel I know pitifully little about the Napoleonic Wars… 🙂
Nice to connect here at the A-Z!
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The Napoleonic Wars were primarily European, so I don’t expect everyone learnt about them, Nilanjana.
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Impressment was a very scary (and all too common) event. I suspect many never made it home again and none came home the same as the person who left.
Yet again though my history knowledge is woefully inadequate.
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I learnt a lot about press gangs when I was younger, EC. But I only discovered the details on the US aspect when I was reading about the War of 1812.
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I know I said earlier that I don’t remember much about 1812, but now that you mention this, I do remember learning about impressment in history class. People don’t want to get drafted into their own country’s military. Imagine getting drafted into somebody else’s military!
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I think impressment and press gangs was my first glimpse of the War, JS. However, to the British, the American sailors were British citizens, at least by birth – well, rebels 😉
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