Sentence examples for capturing merchant from inspiring English sources

The French Navy sought to disrupt British trade by intercepting and capturing merchant ships with roving frigates, a strategy countered by protecting British convoys with heavier warships, particularly in European waters.

He then sailed a captured merchant ship for home.

Together with brother Pierre, this French folk hero ruled an island colony of pirates who captured merchant ships at cannon-point and smuggled the stolen booty into New Orleans.

Before separating in December 1717, Blackbeard and Bonnet plundered and captured merchant ships along the East Coast.

Troubridge's ship, HMS Culloden', was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.

The Japanese cruisers embarked specialised boarding parties for this operation as it was hoped that they could capture merchant ships to alleviate Japan's shipping shortage.

These ships were instructed to blockade the French bases on Isle de France, and had some success against French merchant vessels: Orpheus alone sent three officers and twenty men back to India in captured merchant ships.

The French commander, Commodore Jacques Hamelin, raided across the Bay of Bengal with his squadron and achieved local superiority, capturing numerous merchant ships and minor warships.

With the planned invasion impossible, Allemand began commerce raiding in the Eastern Atlantic, capturing 43 merchant ships during his cruise and successfully disrupting the British blockade of Cadiz.

Shortly after the Behar survivors were rescued, Sakonju sent a radio message to Tones commanding officer, Captain Haruo Mayuzumi, reprimanding him for taking non-essential personnel prisoner and not capturing the merchant ship.

U.S. troops were sent to Puerto Rico in 1824 "to atone for insult to the flag and procure apology;" to Haiti in 1888 to free a captured American merchant vessel; and to Paris in 1914 to guard the U.S. Embassy.