galleots

The galleots were chiefly Barbary vessels, more useful for piracy than a set battle.

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His galleots were punctilious, moreover, in returning the call of Don

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Christian slaves were not always to be caught, and to hire rowers for the galleys was a ruinous expense; and secondly, the special service for which the smaller galleots and brigantines were particularly destined, the descents upon the Spanish coasts was to some degree obstructed by the final expulsion of the last of the Moors from

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The boats were called galleys, galleots, brigantines ( "_galeotas ligeras o vergãtines_," or _frigatas_), &c., according to their size: a galleot is a small galley, while a brigantine may be called a quarter galley.

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"Drub-Devil" with fourteen galleots to make a descent upon Majorca and the neighbouring islands.

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Doria was not at all prepared for such prompt pursuit, and eyed with anxiety the long battle line of one hundred and forty galleys, galleots, and brigantines, bearing down upon him before the wind.

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Calabrian coast with eight galleots in search of prey, he sighted the

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That incorrigible pirate, aware that no one would suspect that he could be roving while Charles was besieging his new kingdom, took occasion to slip over to Minorca with his twenty-seven remaining galleots; and there, flying Spanish and other false colours, deceived the islanders into the belief that his vessels were part of the

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With nearly a hundred and fifty galleys or galleots, ten thousand soldiers, and numerous siege guns, Sinān and Dragut sailed out of the Dardanelles -- whither bound no Christian could tell.

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With this spoil Urūj returned to recover from his wound, while his brother, Kheyr-ed-dīn, kept guard over the castle of the Goletta, and began to bring the galleots and prizes through the canal into the Lake of Tunis, where they would be safe from pursuit.

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