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The important role of women on board ship during the Royal Navy's heyday in the 1700s and 1800s has often been overlooked. As ...

He must be satisfied of the necessity of the measure before he resorts to it. 2. He may authorize the impressment of male slaves between the ages of seventeen and fifty years, but before the 1st ...

Press gangs are operating in Kazakhstan, trying to fill out the ranks of the country’s military. Draft evasion is prevalent in the Central Asian nation amid reports of widespread hazing of new ...

The Middle East conflict is heading toward “World War 2030,” although Donald Trump’s victory may halt its speed. But the ...

The end result was a navy that built an empire and truly ruled the waves. For the whole of this period impressment – the roving of press gangs round English towns conscripting men to serve – was ...

It is one of Australia’s most beloved movies but David Stratton – the reverred movie critic – has revealed a bombshell about his first impression of The Castle. The 85-year-old joins the ...

Only half of the guests at Serhiy and Tania's wedding showed up. Many were trying to avoid conscription squads Dark storm clouds threatened to upend Serhiy and Tania’s beach wedding. But as the ...