press gang

The people who took the young men were the the press gang.

The press gangs would drive all before them in the streets.

The press gangs a necessary evil in time of war.

Fatren had been the one to keep the press gangs away.

He raised his eyes and saw that Ferris was leading the whole press gang toward him.

I'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang.

In the book Sam and his uncle were forced into the navy by the press gangs.

He was born a fortnight after the press gang caught me.

"My Katharine will never lose her lover to the press gang then!"

The press gang acted as a naval shore police force.