Significados de american privateer em inglês

But the next month she was recaptured by an American privateer off Havana.

At the same time American privateers ranged the seas and brought in British merchantmen.

Other victories followed on the sea, and American privateers had more fun than anybody.

On my arrival there I found three American privateers belonging to Beverley in the Massachusetts.

The operations of American privateers were too numerous and far- ranging to be told in detail.

American privateers and blockade-runners were convoyed by Dutch men-of-war, which, of course, could not be attacked.

The important part which the American privateers bore in the last war with Great Britain is well known.

When he was in his thirteenth year he sailed on board an American privateer as a cabin boy.

In 1777 two American privateers hung about the British Isles, making captures, and sending their prizes into French ports.

About the same time, fourteen ships of the outward-bound Quebec fleet were captured by some American privateers off the banks of Newfoundland.

When the British admiral discovered the American privateer within the harbor, he placed his own vessels so as to prevent its escape.

During 1814 great pressure was put upon the British government to make peace, on account of the loss inflicted by American privateers.

By the end of the war of 1812, in particular, the American privateers had won for themselves a formidable position on the ocean.

In later years another American privateer, "the true-blooded Yankee," captured a considerable number of merchant vessels at anchor in Port Charlotte.

At sea American privateers did great damage to British shipping, and so daring were they that even the Irish Sea and the English

North, however, argued that the posts held in America must be defended, and that the British trade must be protected against American privateers.