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Message from the President of the United States, Accompanying
Sundry Papers Relative to the Impressment of American Seamen,
from on Board Public Armed Vessels of the United States, by Vessels
of War Belonging to the King of Great-Britain. . . . 8 January
1799. Philadelphia: J. Gales, 1799. 8 pp.
Phillips, Isaac. An Impartial Examination of the Case of Captain
Isaac Phillips, Late of the Navy, and Commander of the United
States Sloop of War Baltimore and Compiled from Original Documents
and Records, with the Proceedings upon His Application to be Restored
to His Rank in the United States Navy. Baltimore: Benjamin
Edes, 1825. 119 pp.
Secondary Literature
Campbell, John F. "The Havana Incident." American
Neptune 22 (October 1962): 264-76.
British impressment of fifty-five sailors from USS Baltimore on 16 November 1798.
Jackson, Scott Thomas. "Impressment and Anglo-American
Discord, 1787-1818." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan,
1976. 507 pp.
Palmer, Michael A. "Anglo-American Naval Cooperation, 1798-
1801." Naval History 4 (Summer 1990): 14-20.
-----. "The Dismission of Capt. Isaac Phillips." American
Neptune 45 (Spring 1985): 94-103.
The captain of the USS Baltimore in 1798 who permitted his vessel to be boarded by a Royal Navy officer and fifty-five sailors to be pressed.
Perkins, Bradford. The First Rapprochement: England and
the United States, 1795-1805. 1955. Reprint. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. 257 pp.
Teignmouth, Henry N. S. "British Protection of American Shipping
in the Mediterranean, 1784-1810." United Service Magazine
n.s. 60, (December 1919): 169-78.
Zimmerman, James F. Impressment of American Seamen. 1925.
Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1966. 279 pp.