The losses which they sustained by land roused the Byzantines to indemnify themselves on the vessels which still crowded the harbour, and the merchantmen which cleared the straits; but this had the effect of provoking a war with the neighbouring naval powers. [Please select]
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The first of the merchantmen was entering the Thames. [Please select]
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When the after-part of the deck is raised they are known as being deep-waisted, as is the case with many merchantmen. [Please select]
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The piratical cruisers belonging to Algiers had long been the terror of the merchantmen of all nations. [Please select]
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This note also contained one of Zimmermann's proposed solutions, namely, that American warships should convoy American merchantmen. [Please select]
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Tromp, after successfully bringing in two large convoys of merchantmen, encountered (June 12), near the Gabbard, the English fleet under Monk and Deane. [Please select]
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The custom which had hitherto prevailed of converting merchantmen into ships of war at the outbreak of hostilities was abandoned. [Please select]
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Dutch merchantmen who attempted to supply the French with goods did so at their own risk. [Please select]
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In the first month of the war 200 merchantmen were captured, of the value of 15,000,000 florins. [Please select]
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There's eighteen sail of them; one is a frigate and one looks like a sloop of war, sir; the rest is merchantmen, some of 'em armed.' [Please select]
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In a single week of June, 1777, this ship captured a score of British merchantmen, of which more than two thousand were taken by Americans during the war. [Please select]
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