Showing posts with label french. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Deposition: Another La Concorde Survives a Pirate Attack!

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 Deposition: *La Concorde de Nantes* (100 tons) September 1718: The 1st Appearing before the King's Lieutenant General: (Source: Rapport...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Deposition: Bad Practice of English Trading in the French Isles

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 Deposition: The *St. André de Nantes* (200 tons) On the said day, March 10 [1718] (source: Rapports des capitaines à l'Amirauté de Nant...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Deposition: French Battle the Weather, Spanish, English, and Pirates!

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 *La Fidélité de Nantes*, arriving from Léogâne — 150 tons Dated the 13th of October Appearing before the Gentlemen Lieutenant-General on Du...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

The *St. Michel* of Nantes Plundered and Captured by Pirates

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 The *St. Michel* of Nantes Plundered and Captured by Pirates: (Rapports des capitaines à l'Amirauté de Nantes, B4578, p. 32-34, Archive...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Introduction to Primary Sources and Their Use: Analysis of Depositions - John Vickers (bef. 28 May 1716)

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Depositions are legal documents taken to investigate a legal matter. It's the same as an interrogation. That does not mean, however, eac...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

M. I. Guet on Pirates at Bourbon Island 1721

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 LES ORIGINES DE L'ILE BOURBON ET DE LA COLONISATION FRANÇAISE A MADAGASCAR or THE ORIGINS OF BOURBON ISLAND AND FRENCH COLONIZATION IN ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The True Story of La Buse's Grave on the Island of La Réunion

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"La véritable histoire de La Buse" from the Office of Western Tourism, Department of the Island of La Réunion at https://www.ouest...
Sunday, June 07, 2020

Pirate References in Le Nouveau Mercure - June 1718

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p. 174-175: OF JUNE SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL In Lisbon, June 8 ... A large English forban [pirate] having entered the River on th...

Pirate References in Le Nouveau Mercure - September 1718

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p. 129: " List of Spanish vessels taken, burn, sink, bottom, & of those who escape; Vessels caught." Letters from Bermuda indi...

La Gazette Pirate References 1723-4

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p. 94: From London on 11 February 1723. ... Letters from the City of Yorck in Virginia state that the Weymouth English Warship had...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

More Primary Sources Available!

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There are a few new transcriptions available on my website at http://baylusbrooks.com/index_files/Page7226.htm Ellis Brand ...