privateer

Example Sentences

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Sever supervised construction of Congress and was deployed with the ship to the Caribbean to protect U.S. merchant ships from French privateers.

From Washington Times

As in the days of pirates and privateers, much of our nation's critical infrastucture is controlled by private companies and enemy nations and their proxies are targeting them aggressively.

From Salon

This month marks 400 years since the arrival of that first slave ship, the White Lion, an English privateer carrying Africans captured by Portuguese colonists in present-day Angola.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s also the city of corsairs, the privateers who would cache their treasures in the city’s deep cellars.

From Washington Post

Robinson was still Smith’s property in 1813 when Jackson swept through the area to enlist men of every background — slaves, free black men, privateers, Choctaw Indians — in advance of the British attack on New Orleans.

From Washington Post