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Definition of Brigantines
1. brigantine [n] - See also: brigantine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brigantines
Literary usage of Brigantines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Luis L. Dominguez (1891)
"BOUT this time the governor sent in search of timber in order to build brigantines
for the voyage of discovery he proposed making, and a caravel to send to ..."
2. The Works of William Robertson: To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life by William Robertson, Alexander Stewart (1820)
"But as the enemy drew near, a breeze suddenly sprung up; in a moment the sails
were spread, the brigantines, with the utmost Repulsed, ease, broke through ..."
3. A New History of the Conquest of Mexico: In which Las Casas' Denunciations by Wilson, Robert Anderson, 1812- (1859)
"... 478—A muster and division offerees for the siege, 479—The land forces placed
in position, 480—By means of his brigantines Cortez captures the Pinon, ..."
4. Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543: The Narrative of by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera, Frederick Webb Hodge, Theodore Hayes Lewis (1907)
"Chapter 40 How the brigantines lost sight of each other in a storm, ... The tempest
having passed off from the beach where the brigantines were riding, ..."
5. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, John Ingram Lockhart (1844)
"How Cortes assigns particular stations to the twelve brigantines, the thirteenth
being considered unfit for service. CORTES, our officers, and the whole of ..."
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