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  2. Impressment - Wikipedia

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    The events in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Sylvia's Lovers (1863) take place against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Charlie Kinraid is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang and later Sylvia Robson's father is executed for leading a revengeful raid on press-gang collaborators.

  3. Shanghaiing - Wikipedia

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    The presence of a shipping commissioner was intended to ensure the sailor wasn't "forcibly or unknowingly signed on by a crimp". [19] In 1884, the Dingley Act came into effect. This law prohibited the practice of seamen taking advances on wages. [20] It also limited the making of seamen's allotments to only close relatives. [20]

  4. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...

  5. Woman dragged out of home by her hair and kidnapped ... - AOL

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    Marivel Dunn, 60, was forcibly taken from a Florida home by her partner, police said. The search is on for the couple. At 10 a.m. on March 15, police released surveillance footage showing the ...

  6. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Forlorn hope: a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. [3] Frontal assault or frontal attack: an attack toward the front of an enemy force. Garrison: a body of troops holding a particular location on a long ...

  7. 5-year-old abducted by father from Wichita home, police say ...

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    Trevawn Strong Jr. was forcibly taken by his father, Trevawn Strong Sr., during a domestic incident at the child’s Wichita residence just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Wichita Police ...

  8. Coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    What may be its first published use within a text composed in English is an editor's note in the London Morning Chronicle,1804, reporting the arrest by Napoleon in France, of Moreau, Berthier, Masséna, and Bernadotte: "There was a report in circulation yesterday of a sort of coup d'état having taken place in France, in consequence of some ...

  9. Attorney for cartel leader 'El Mayo’ Zambada says his client ...

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    The lawyer of a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who is now in U.S. custody pushed back Sunday against claims that his client was tricked into flying into the country, saying he was “forcibly ...