The History of Our Navy, Vol. 2 of 4: From Its Origin to the Present Day; 1775-1897 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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That more than two men would be SO im pressed without having a protest filed, to every one for whom such a protest was filed, is a matter of course. And what is the moderate conclusion drawn from these facts? It is that more than twenty thousand free American men were forced into the service of the British navy by the press-gangs. Their fate, save in a few cases, is unrecorded, but we know that some met the perils of the deep and were lost. Many were sent to the fever coasts of Africa and there died. Some were flogged to death at the order of officers who laughed at their tortures. And of the rest - the few - we Shall read farther on. For their cries to righteous heaven for help, and the wails of mothers and wives and children left helpless by these aggres sions, were to be heard at last.

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