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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry impressment (search)
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Pinkney, William 1764-
Statesman; born in Annapolis, Md., March 17, 1764.
His father, an Englishman, was a loyalist in the Revolution, but the son espoused its principles.
He studied law with Judge Chase, and was admitted to practice in
William Pinkney. 1786, in which he acquired great reputation for his impassioned oratoWilliam Pinkney. 1786, in which he acquired great reputation for his impassioned oratory.
He was a delegate in the Maryland convention that ratified the national Constitution.
After serving a term in the Maryland legislature, he was elected to a seat in Congress, but declined the honor on account of the state of his private affairs.
In 1796 he was appointed one of the commissioners in London under Jay's treaty, and obtained for the State of Maryland a claim on the Bank of England for $800,000. Pinkney was made attorneygeneral of his State in 1805, and the next year he was sent to England as commissioner to treat with the British government in conjunction with James Monroe.
He was minister there from 1807 to 1811, and in the autumn of the
President, the
An American frigate built in New York City in 1794; became flag-ship of the squadron commanded by Capt. John Rodgers at the beginning of the War of 1812. Minister Pinkney, at the British Court, had arranged the difficulties concerning the affair of the Chesapeake and Leopard (see Chesapeake), by which full atonement by the British government was secured.
A favorable arrangement with the French by the United States had caused British cruisers on the American coast to become more and more annoying to American commerce.
A richly laden vessel bound to France was captured within 30 miles of New York, and early in May, 1811, a British frigate, supposed to be the Guerriere, stopped an American brig only 18 miles from New York.
The government then resolved to send out one or two of the new frigates to protect American commerce from British cruisers.
the President, lying at Annapolis, was ordered (May 6) to put to sea at once, under the command of Commodore Rodgers.
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