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privateer

Pirate ship
private vessel, armed vessel, freebooter; see ship.
Pirate
buccaneer, corsair, freebooter; see pirate.

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The web site Privateer Dragons is a must for those serious about the pirate life.
It was captured and plundered in 1 595 by the English privateer James Lancaster.
His ship fell into the hands of a French privateer and he was for some time a prisoner in France, but finally proceeded to London, where his proposal was considered without anything being decided.
The occupation of Monterey for a few hours by a Buenos Aires privateer (1818) was the only incident of actual war that California saw in all these years; and it, in truth, was a ridiculous episode, fit introduction to the bloodless play-wars, soon to be inaugurated in Californian politics.
He held Dover successfully through the darkest hour of John's fortunes; he brought back Kent to the allegiance of Henry III.; he completed the discomfiture of the French and their allies by the naval victory which he gained over Eustace the Monk, the noted privateer and admiral of Louis, in the Straits of Dover (Aug.

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