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Meaning of "french privateer"
french privateer: a term referring to a privately owned and crewed vessel authorized by a government to attack and capture enemy ships during wartime. Privateers were common in historical naval warfare as a way for governments to supplement their naval forces
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On a second voyage a French privateer captured her.
On her first whaling voyage she captured a Spanish ship and fought off a French privateer.
These army crewed gunboats managed to capturing a French privateer and retaking two of her prizes.
The French privateer Blonde captured her on her return voyage.
On the way they were attacked by a French privateer.
At some point a French privateer captured Perseverance.
He bought it with his prize money from a French privateer.
The French privateer Augusta had captured both.
In her brief career she captured one French privateer.
A French privateer captured her but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her.
She was on her second voyage when a French privateer captured her.
Voltiguer was a French privateer schooner, formally the lugger Venguer.
The third was another French privateer.
Espereance was a French privateer lugger, formerly a privateer from Guernsey.
As she was returning to England a French privateer captured her.
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A French privateer captured Duff, landed its prisoners in Montevideo, and sold her.
She captured one French privateer.
He was given command of a small schooner, with which he captured a larger French privateer.
Capture of the French privateer.
However, she was reported to have been chased into port on 1 November by a French privateer.
Its most recent owner was French privateer Jo Schlesser.
Later sent to England, he is killed during a fight with a French privateer.
Surcouf was named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf.
Vautour was a French privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that made three privateering voyages.
The next day he captured the French privateer Afrique.
A French privateer captured her in 1804 while she was on her fourth slave trading voyages.
Two days later they captured the French privateer Chasseur.
On 28 June, the French privateer Diamant captures the ship and frees the slaves.
Galatea had been sailing from Dublin to London when a French privateer had captured her.
In her, he fought a large French privateer in an indecisive action off Cape Gata.
She cleared La Hogue with difficulty but nevertheless captured the French privateer cutter Trompeur there.
He captured a 4-gun French privateer named Carnival on 23 March, and brought her into Spithead.
On the voyage, the vessel was attacked by a French privateer.
He did, however, manage to join the French privateer Chevalier du Plessis later that year.
That same year, he was on the ship when it defeated a French privateer.
Mars, was a French privateer.
He embarked with this liberation army on a few schooners, which joined a French privateer corvette.
The unknown ship was the 36-gun French privateer Psyche, under the command of Captain Trogoff.
Resolution ( United States ), The ship was captured by a French privateer.
In 1718 she captured two French privateer frigates off Montevideo.
A French privateer captured and sank Wolverine on 21 March 1804 whilst she was on convoy duty.
Together they captured the French privateer Difficile.
In 1807 a French privateer captured her, but the British Royal Navy recaptured her the next day.
Later, Bacchus repelled an attack by two French privateer schooners.
In May 1798, a French privateer captured a merchant vessel off of the New York Harbor.
The newcomer turned out to be the French privateer Henri, from Nantes.
Surprize ( Great Britain ), The ship was captured on 8 December by a French privateer.
Five days later they captured a French privateer brig of 14 guns.
Jean-François Duclerc, a French privateer, targeted Rio de Janeiro and its lucrative gold shipments in 1710.
Then one week later, she captured the French privateer Fou Fou.
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