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Sailor Chronicle of a Battle with a Privateer Victory
A detailed eyewitness account describes a naval engagement between Constantine and Vittoire privateer. Be recounts heavy damage to Vittoire, many losses, and his own crew’s high casualties while pursuing the fleeing ship, alongside notes on repairs and plans to sail with Thetis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thetis
Moutry
Arnoux
Carthagena
Marseilles
Naples
Lord Loudon
Salisbury
Basingstoke
Col. Colville
Portsmouth
Streichts
Madeira
West-Indies
Guildhall
O’hara
London House Yard
Newgate
St. Paul’s
Soho Square
Parker
Buckingham
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Agent
Southampton
Pyle
Seymour Pyle
Somerly
Ringwood
Hants
Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
His Majesty
Portmouth
Chath@g
Gibraltar
Sheerness
Crown
Cotton
Lambert
Littlebury
James
Burness
Jonathan
Garraway
Lloyd’s Coffee
Lombard-Street
Greenland
West India
Virginia
Church-Hole
Henry Dawson
Mitre
Plymouth
Fortune
HERO
Georgeorge Edgcumbe
Lloyd’s Coffees
London
Francis Fanning
Mitre-Great Room
Angelique
Bayonne
George Edgcumbe
Lloyd’s Coffee House
Customs House
Sion
LE Grivoihis
Barden
Acteon
Paul Henry Curry
Tamer
Sattath
George Winne
Benj. Vaughan and Son