- the
pirates had
originally been
either sailors for the
Royal Navy,
privateersmen, or
merchant seamen. Most
pirates had
experience living on the sea,...
-
Ditchburn reported that the
Americans had
behaved more like
pirates than
privateersmen,
looting private property and
cabin stores. In
October Preston foundered...
-
adhering to it was in the
material interest of
their navies,
their privateersmen,
their merchants and bankers, and
their sovereigns.
Diplomats and international...
-
force attacked the
English settlement there. This
spurred several angry privateersmen,
among them Searle, to sail for
Florida and sack the
presidio of St...
- good fellowship, and kept open-house for all pirates, buccaneers, and
privateersmen.”
Leadstone was
among at
least 30
former pirates who
traded goods to...
-
privateers Sir John
Sherbrooke and Mathilda. At dusk on 16 June 1813 the
privateersmen boarded their quarry simultaneously from
opposite sides of the vessel...
- of the wreckage.
After being treated for
their wounds, the
captured privateersmen were sent to the
Melville Island prisoner of war camp in Halifax. Most...
- yet, though, but
after a w**** of
listening to the
insulting British privateersmen, the
Americans decided to act.
Captain Barney had
concealed a blunderbuss...
-
Martinique consisted of 1,200 regulars, 7,000
local militia and 4,000
hired privateersmen. Furthermore, the
mountainous nature of the
island made it
rather easy...
- de Rivadeneyra". (in Spanish) Johnston,
Charles H. L. (2004).
Famous Privateersmen and
Adventures of the Sea.
Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4179-2666-4...
