Sentences with 'privateers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word privateers and other words derived from it.
• « As hostility between England and Spain grew, Elizabeth's government sponsored privateers - pirates working for the English crown - led by a skilled and ruthless captain named Sir Francis Drake. »
• « These privateers began a campaign of raids against Spanish possessions in the New World and even Spanish ports, culminating in the sinking of a Spanish fleet anchored at Cadiz in 1587. »
• « Nevertheless, Elizabeth approved of English privateers, sea captains who had been given permission by the home government to attack the enemy at will. »