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The British Royal Navy began boarding foreign ships, among them American ones, claiming to search for deserters, but instead they were actually looking for enlisting's for the Royal Navy. If the enlisting's weren't enough, they would partake in the impressment of sailors by the use of press gangs, regarding their need for them, considering the required people to operate British ships tripled in 20 years, as well as the conditions within the Royal Navy becoming so harsh that 100000 members died.