Sentences with 'captains'

Example sentences and phrases with the word captains and other words derived from it.

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« Nevertheless, Elizabeth approved of English privateers, sea captains who had been given permission by the home government to attack the enemy at will. »
« Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty tried to prevent the ships' captains from paying the tax and placed groups around the ships to ensure that the tea was not unloaded. »
« A sailor from the small Greek polis Massalia, known for producing ship captains and navigators, Pytheas undertook one of the most improbable voyages in ancient history, along with the famous (though anonymous) Phoenician voyage around Africa earlier. »
« The slaves aboard the ships were so cramped that they could not move for most of the journey, and slave ship captains calculated into their profit margins the fact that a significant percentage of their human cargo would die along the way - over a million slaves died during the Middle Passage in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result. »

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