Sentences with 'privateer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word privateer and other words derived from it.
• « Each year the English took more than £100,000 from Spain in this way; the English privateer Francis Drake first made a name for himself when, in 1573, he plundered silver, gold and pearls worth £40,000. »
• « He immediately began commissioning American privateer ships and organising militias of American volunteers to attack Spanish possessions in America, and then travelled to Philadelphia, rallying support for the French cause along the way. »