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Privateer actions and naval captures near Dunkirk and Ireland
Ship losses and captures dominate this maritime reveal as Privateers from Dunkirk and Bayonne seize vessels including the Anfon Cutter and Charming Polly while British crews protest impressment near Ramsey Bay. Reports detail the Lively Rabiel and other craft taken, with prisoners coerced and ships driven toward France amid ongoing war and prize activity.
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Kattepste
Marquis Ouert
Dunkirk
Anfon
Plymouth
Bayonne
France
Anfot
England
Wilson
London
Dublin
St. Jean de Luz
Jahudry
Longhendall
Louisbourg
Whitehaven
New York
Liverpool
Ramsay Bay
Man
Excise
St. Bride’s Church
Christ's
Sc. Bartholomew's
Bridewell
Bedlam
St. Thomas's Hospitals
Children of Christ
Barr
Roger Sturgeon
Caius College
Water Beach
Cambridgeshire
Free Grammar School
Cambridge
Hormead
Buckingham
Henry Holden
Katherine
Houghton
CIA
Great Billing Church
Northampton
Old Ford
Stepney
Mr. Hewer
Cjleuesttes
Gauls