Travels Through France And Italy
The burghers here, as in other places, consist of merchants, shop-keepers, and artisans. Some of the merchants have got fortunes, by fitting out privateers during the war. A great many single ships were taken from the English, notwithstanding the good look-out of our cruisers, who were so alert, that the privateers from this coast were often taken in four hours after they sailed from the French harbour; and there is hardly a captain of an armateur in Boulogne, who has not been prisoner in England five or six times in the course of the war. They were fitted out at a very small expence, and used to run over in the night to the coast of England,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84702-290-5
- EAN: 9781847022905
- Produktnummer: 2454135
- Verlag: Echo Library
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 434 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 434
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