A few of the enemy gained the deck, but the privateersmen turned and killed them.
Six thousand privateersmen had signed articles in her taverns, as many as the total population of the town, and they filled it with a spirit of enterprise and daring.
The masters and officers who handled these ships with such magnificent success were true-blue American seamen, inspired by the finest traditions, successors of the privateersmen of 1812.
In the crisis they were Americans, not privateersmen in quest of plunder, and they would gladly die sooner than haul down the Stars and Stripes.
The privateersmen of the Revolution played a larger part in winning the war than has been commonly recognized.
In several notable instances the privateersmen tried conclusions with ships that flew the royal ensign, and got the better of them.
In the last invasion the privateersmen were defeated in "an open pitched battle.
The American coast offered great facilities for smuggling, and it was only as smugglers that pirates or privateersmen could convert their prizes into money.
With peace their numbers increased by the conversion of privateersmen into freebooters.
As usual, the Peace of Utrecht was followed by an increase of piracy, through the privateersmen being thrown out of employment.
Their guns were admirably handled; some by the cool New England seamen lately forming the crew of the Carolina, others by the fierce creole privateersmen of Lafitte, and still others by trained artillerymen of the regular army.
The assailants had 13, and the privateersmen 16 men killed and wounded in the fight.
The privateersmen suffered a heavier proportional loss than their assailants, and they gained the victory by sheer ability to stand punishment.
These people suffered severely at the hands of American privateersmen as the war progressed, and most of them were forced to abandon their homes and move up the river for greater security.
The privateersmen crouched below the bulwarks of their taut little schooner until her bow passed over the waist of the brig.
It was a dismal sight, as the privateersmen moved around with lanterns looking at the faces of the dead and dying.
The Frenchman has no stomach for a fight, that's very certain; thoseprivateersmen prefer plunder to glory.
You know that privateersmen are not the most orderly of characters; I am uncertain how my fellows may behave during my absence, though I can answer for their good conduct when I am among them.
All were dressed in uniforms closely resembling that of the British navy, for such privateersmen were wont to wear.
Altogether, though not so heavily armed as the Dolphin or Comet of Baltimore, she was one of the most substantial as well as one of the swiftest privateersmen that ever left any port of the country during the war.
All privateersmen are not of your way of thinking, and it was there we fell into our mistake.
Now, as privateersmen are not expected to be expert or even very accurate in the use of signals, he had ventured to show these very numbers, let it prove for better or worse.
It's more likely, sir, that some of the privateersmen have got ashore on planks and empty casks, and are prowling about in the weeds, watching our boats.
To conceal their vessels when anchored just inside an inlet, the privateersmen would stand slim pine trees beside the masts and thus very effectively concealed the rigging from British cruisers prowling along the shore.
They would start legally enough, for they began as privateersmen under legal letters of marque in the wars.
It was five miles to Pensacola, but the privateersmen landed their prisoners there.
It appeared now that the privateersmen had two boats, which had been brought across the island for the purpose.
As they did so, however, the French flag fluttered down from the peak, and the privateersmenthrew down their arms.
As this was what no belligerent had a right to demand, thoughprivateersmen constantly did it, I could comply or not.
No sooner was my proposition made than it was accepted by acclamation, and the privateersmen began to pour into the boat, heels over head, without order, and I may say without orders.
With these weapons, it would have been easy for us to have given the privateersmen such a hint, as would not fail to keep them at bay.
The stern-boat, a light skiff, was lowered and brought alongside, and then it appeared why the privateersmen did not board us in their own boat, as is usual on such occasions.
As the privateersmen could not take our vessel without avowing themselves pirates, they reluctantly limited themselves to plunder.
He told me he had stowed away the remainder of his property where it would puzzle the privateersmen to find it, and chuckled over the ingenuity by which he expected to outwit the rascals.
It was subsequently said, on behalf of the United States Government, that the detention of our privateersmen had been intended to be only temporary, to make it certain that the hostages were coming forward.
Some of the hostages we held for our privateersmen had gone forward, but the remainder were retained.
I know what privateersmen are like, when they see cold steel in their faces.
The French privateersmen were indeed a very rough-looking set of fellows.
In the course of the next two months, Chesapeake Bay was the scene of two gallant adventures, in which American privateersmen were opposed to the British sailors.
This time the privateersmen had every advantage, while the British carried the day by pure courage.
The privateersmen claimed that the prize was theirs alone.
But while the privateersmen had preferred flight to fighting while nothing was at stake, they did not propose to let their prize be taken from them without a resistance, however great the odds against them.
The little crew of privateersmen fought viciously, guarding the side with cutlasses and pistols, hurling the boarders back into the sea, or cutting them down as they reached the deck.
Of the privateersmen sent out from Salem there is a separate list.
And, at this, both of the American privateersmen chuckled.
A true type of the Revolutionary privateersmenwas Captain Silas Talbot, of Massachusetts.
Very speedily the privateersmen became the most prosperous and the most picturesque figures along the waterside of the Atlantic cities.
It is, in fact, a striking evidence of the gallantry and the patriotism of the privateersmen that they did not seek to evade battle with the enemy's armed forces.
Secretary of the Treasury, and privateersmen put on the pension list with the navy.
In this war as in the preceding, French privateersmen made great inroads on British commerce, and some of these privateering operations were conducted on a grand scale.
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