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IMPRESSMENTDREW SARNO

Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot,"Butcher and Bolt" "From the Marquesas, 1813, to china, 1859" (31). ||
 * > Name: || Drew Sarno ||
 * > Word: || Impressment ||
 * > Source: || [//Book Title//, Author's Name, "Chapter Title", Section Heading, Page Number where your word is found.]
 * > Appropriate Definition: || "The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service" ||
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impressment ||
 * > Context Sentences: || In 1811 Porter received a captain's commission and command of the 32-gun frigate //Essex.// When the United States declared war on Great Britain the following year because of British harassment of American trade and impressment of American seamen, Porter's primary mission was commerce raiding. During his second cruise, Which took him down to Brazil, he decided on his own initiative to swing around Cape Horn, the tip of South America, making his ship the first U.S. man-of-war to reach the Pacific Ocean. ||

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