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Tuesday, 27 August 2019

Dutch privateer Generaal Monnet not successful in capturing British brig ship according to the Dutch newpspaper Bataafsche Leeuwarder courant dated 15 November 1804

An item dated Flushing the 6th the Batavian cutter privateer Generaal Monnet captain J. de Vries attacked twice a British brig ship coming from Archangel and anchored off Winterton. However the six guns of the brig ship forced him to return killing her captain and a sailor and wounding a second sailors. The privateer went next to Texel. Fitted out at Flushing?