Note 24 — Chapter I
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Theodore Roosevelt, who gave this matter very careful study, says that at least 20,000 American seamen were impressed. (Roosevelt, footnote to 42.)
"Hundreds of American citizens had been taken by force from under the American flag, some of whom were already lying beneath the waters off Cape Trafalgar." (Adams: U. S. iii, 202.)
See also Babcock: Rise of American Nationality, 76-77; and Jefferson to Crawford, Feb. 11, 1815, Works: Ford, XI, 451.