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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Charleston of a naval engagement near St. Bartholomews where the American schooner Teazer, under Capt. Charles O'Bryan, captured a French privateer in close combat without gunfire, resulting in heavy bloodshed, and brought it to St. Kitts on July 24-25, 1798.
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MR. TIMOTHY,
While I was in St. Bartholomews, the fishing boats brought in an account of an action fought between a French privateer mounting twelve carriage guns, and one hundred and twenty men; and the schooner Teazer, Charles O'Bryan, master, mounting eight guns, and eighty men.
The action commenced by lashing both vessels together, and the privateer was captured by the Teazer, without firing gun or pistol, yet the sea was covered with blood and dead bodies, and carried into St. Kitts, on the 24th or 25th of July, 1798.
JAMES WOODARD.
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St. Bartholomews
Event Date
24th Or 25th Of July, 1798
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french privateer captured by teazer without gunfire; sea covered with blood and dead bodies; privateer carried into st. kitts.
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Fishing boats in St. Bartholomews reported an action where the schooner Teazer, mounting eight guns and eighty men under master Charles O'Bryan, lashed to and captured a French privateer with twelve carriage guns and one hundred twenty men.