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- The Press Gang, myth and reality...5:25Why wartime fleets needed sudden manpowerChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...10:55Why the press sought experienced sailorsNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...11:18How disease losses increased recruiting pressureNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...17:18Pubs, pay, and the press serviceChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...32:51Reading wartime manpower figures carefullyNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...42:06Emergency press gangs and the limits of forceChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...46:45Impressment and the British-American citizenship problemChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...49:56Charles Davis and a claim of American impressmentNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...54:49Isaac Hull's retaliation for losing merchant sailorsNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...59:08How realistic is Master and Commander?Q&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:02:28Why a pub fight need not prove forced naval recruitmentQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:08:22Why impressment gave way to professional serviceQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:10:36Testing American claims that whole crews were impressedQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:12:22Local identity complicated claims of nationalityNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:21:11Could impressment return in another form?Q&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:21:52What actually drove emergency naval recruiting?Q&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:25:48Why ships could not rely on unwilling majoritiesChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:29:33Why modern conscription had different enforcementNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:31:25How recruiters identified useful seafaring skillsQ&A
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:36:14John Quilliam and the meaning of a press recruitNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:49:18Desertion, debt, and incentives to enlistChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:50:39Forced separation and family life aboard warshipsNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:55:16Why the Navy could not empty a merchant crewChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:57:13Merchant wages and false impressment alarmsNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality0:34Press gangs targeted seafaring manpowerChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality2:28Wartime expansion drove emergency recruitmentNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality6:04War of 1812 impressment exposed conflicting citizenship rulesChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality8:00Isaac Hull answered a British seizure by taking a sailorNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality9:20American impressment totals need a sailor-population comparisonNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality16:39John Quilliam rose from impressed sailor to Victory's first lieutenantNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality17:23Pressed men carried a reputation for desertionNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality19:35Debt protection could draw sailors toward naval recruiting partiesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality21:02The King's shilling and limits on recruiting abuseChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality26:36A fully rigged merchant ship could not lose its whole crew safelyChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality28:08Some merchant captains exploited fear of the pressNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality29:07Guard ships could insist on merchant wages before enlistmentChapter
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality30:03Emergency manning left pursers responsible for sailors' unpaid wagesNotable Point
- Press Gang: The Myth & Reality32:45The merchant marine was the Navy's peacetime reserveChapter
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:01Wage evasion complicates impressment narrativesNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More6:33Why impressment claims are hard to verifyNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More17:18Nationality papers and competing estimates of impressmentNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More22:14Roosevelt's evidence shifts from impressment to confiscationNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More26:20Why taking a few topmen could cripple a merchant crewNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:16:09How Napoleonic sailors chose a ship and captainQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!21:43Cartel ships depended on agreements the belligerents never madeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism19:19Impressment, trade, and expansion pull the United States toward warChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism30:24Could an English-speaking foreign sailor be impressed as British?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism33:24What stopped an impressed sailor from sabotaging the ship?Q&A
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1015:58Impressment and neutral trade before the War of 1812Chapter
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...17:24How cultural memory simplifies American impressmentQ&A
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough42:27HMS Leopard and the Chesapeake affairChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:36:01How impressment actually shaped Royal Navy manningNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:44:32Impressment's political impact exceeded its numbersQ&A
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:29:56William Brown’s merchant success and a biography full of puzzlesChapter
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?39:30Propaganda, blockade claims, and naval source criticismNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:27:10Why involuntary crews undermine a warshipNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:41:53How important were press gangs to naval recruiting?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:10:41Why impressment disputes were hard to resolveNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature1:45:03Impressment disputes were complicated by contested citizenshipQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:58:17Dungeness exposes the limits of the Kentish Knock victoryChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.52:08Voyage contracts ended under the threat of impressmentNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.55:32Could a master time a press ship's arrival to avoid wages?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.57:23Was impressment an improvement over merchant service?Q&A
- Blockade30:52Contraband searches, cargo seizure, and impressmentNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:22:42Maritime rights and the road to the War of 1812Chapter