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There's one little problem with your argumentation: most of the population was living either along the shoreline or along a river, which would allow access to l
by baud147258 8y ago
There's one little problem with your argumentation: most of the population was living either along the shoreline or along a river, which would allow access to large bodies of water. And sailor recruitment was massively done in coastal cities.
- eftychis 8y agoCheck the end of the Basis section (paragraph 5 onward) in the Impressment wikipedia article I cite, it mentions replacing conscripted/pressed seamen with landsmen. Check also the Quota system mentioned. I have to claim living near a river or lake (and bathing) does not make one a good or even ok swimmer.
- baud147258 8y agoIt was moslty disagreeing with this proposition in your argumentation: > the average citizen at the time did not leave close to shore > removed access to the sea to people in mainland/central Europe during pre-adulthood, by land-locking families And as for France, sailors, including pressed ones were from coastal regions.