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Meanings of english privateer in English

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Usage of english privateer in English
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This meant nothing to the ruffian who commanded the English privateer Revenge.
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailo...
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An English privateer bore down upon them and captured them.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II / The Planting Of The ...
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Jeremiah Hariman, who was put on board by the English Privateer in Order to keep Possesn.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period / Illustrative Do...
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The three English privateers bore on towards the French merchantmen, and when within range opened fire.
The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
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The English privateers likewise met with uncommon success.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
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It is because he robs French ships as an English privateer, and English ships as a French privateer.
Carette of Sark
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She must be some English privateer.
Hurricane Hurry
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Their whole commerce by the Channel was cut off: even that to the Baltic was much infested by English privateers.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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These distinctions are not quite adapted to the meridian of a flippant English privateer's comprehensions: however, the murmur is not great yet.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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She was an armed vessel-shewas not a British man-of-war-shemightbe an English privateer, but she had the look of a foreigner.
Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
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They brought with them nearly $3,000, and were deeply mortified to learn that the ship was an English privateer and they were our prisoners.
Rodman the Boatsteerer, and Other Stories / 1898
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