When was it published?

March 27, 1777 in The Newport Gazette

Foreign News March 27, 1777

The Newport Gazette

Q: What keywords are associated?

American Privateers, Piracy, West Indies, Gulph Of Florida, French Privateer, Turk's Island, Brig Capture

Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island

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What is this article about?

American privateers, unable to safely return to their ports due to British ships, have turned to piracy, plundering vessels in the West Indies and Gulf of Florida. A 10-gun brig was captured by a French privateer near Turk's Island and taken to France.

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Several of the American privateers, which cannot with safety put into the ports they belong to, they being guarded by his Majesty's ships of war and cruisers, have at length commenced Pirates, which it is supposed, will be the case with most of them and have plundered a number vessels of different nations in the West-Indies, and in the Gulph of Florida, of provisions and merchandise, for subsistence one vessel in particular, a brig of ten guns, was detected in plundering a French merchant ship, near Turk's Island, by a French privateer, by whom she was taken and carried for safe port in Old France.

What sub-type of article is it?

Piracy Or Privateering

What keywords are associated?

American Privateers Piracy West Indies Gulph Of Florida French Privateer Turk's Island Brig Capture

Where did it happen?

West Indies

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

West Indies

Outcome

a brig of ten guns was taken by a french privateer and carried to old france

Event Details

Several American privateers, unable to safely enter their ports guarded by British ships, have turned to piracy, plundering vessels of various nations in the West-Indies and Gulph of Florida for provisions and merchandise. Specifically, a 10-gun brig was caught plundering a French merchant ship near Turk's Island by a French privateer.