A Confederate privateer is reported sixty miles south-east of Sandy. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Abroad] Reference
The privateer was a schooner, called the Eagle, commanded by Captain Potter. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
A privateer was a-- was a ship that was given a legal license by the -- the new state of. From Wordnik.com. [The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution] Reference
It is during this time that the term privateer and the term pirate become blurred together. From Wordnik.com. [“The Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, The Epic Battle For the Americas, And the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaw’s Bloody Reign” by Stephen Talty (Crown, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
A privateer was a vessel which under commission from one country, carried on war with the ships of other countries. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Manhattan] Reference
This is the general title of "privateer," given to all vessels not cooped up in southern harbors. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The privateer is a Parisian, you say?. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman of Thirty] Reference
"privateer" rather than "pirate" in French, and that this was the golden age of the business in that country. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
In 1779, however, she was converted into a privateer. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Once a privateer is on the inside track, they stay there. From Wordnik.com. [So You Thought We Were Winding Down Our Wars?] Reference
About this time forty men arrived in a privateer called the. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
We convoyed to keep the Alabama, a Confederate privateer, away. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Thus forced to take charge of a privateer without a moment's warning. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Barcelona for Dunkirk, and taken eight days before by an English privateer. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Off Ochre Bay we started a small Spanish privateer, which ran into a creek. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
He shipped in another privateer, and this time actually served out the cruise. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
After a long run, the Ostrich brought the brig, which was the American privateer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
This is an essential measure to afford the transport protection from some privateer. From Wordnik.com. [Operations Upon the Sea A Study] Reference
You here behold the first privateer and the first victim of his murderous propensities. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
Massachusetts, and, as soon as he landed, was offered the command of a privateer of twenty guns. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
States marshall captured, just as she was leaving the wharf, a schooner fully fitted out as a privateer. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
He was however, taken, after a running fight, by boarding, by a privateer of four large guns and sixty men. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
The interest depends chiefly upon the manoeuvres by which a French privateer escapes capture by an English frigate. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
At thirteen, he worked at his father's trade; at sixteen, he ran away and shipped on board the privateer "Terrible,". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
She proved a French privateer with a long six-pounder on a traverse and eight one-pound swivels, with fifty-two men. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The first lieutenant was a disappointed officer and a complete old woman, and the ship was something of a privateer. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Rhett, with the Dutch privateer and a Bermuda sloop armed, sailed round by sea, with orders to meet him at Sewee Bay. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
While the criminals readied the armed privateer for blast-off, Coxine and Wallace climbed directly to the radar bridge. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of the Space Pirates] Reference
The vessel, said to be stout and well armed, was attacked on the voyage by a privateer, and a fierce engagement ensued. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
English search, or paid an English tax -- whether it entered a French port, or fell into the power of a French privateer. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Although a slave captain, and afterwards a privateer, my father was a kind and just man -- a good father, husband, and friend. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Cutter (The Royal George), and scarcely had we landed at Kirkwall than accounts were brought of a French privateer being within sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
The vessel was chased by a French privateer, and for some time the little family had reason to fear becoming inmates of a French prison. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
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