The practice of impressment involved

A) ?attempts by the British to convince their opponents that the royal navy was all-powerful at sea.
B) ?the seizure of U.S. sailors who had defected to the French during the Napoleonic Wars.
C) ?the French policy of forcing all nations to impress their soldiers into the French army.
D) ?the seizure of sailors from U.S. merchant ships for service on British warships.
E) ?None of these


D

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