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Monday 25 May 2015

British 5th Topaze captured French privateer le General Angereau according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemse courant dated 9 March 1805

An item reported that the British frigate Topaze (1) captured on 13th February the French privateer le General Angereau of 14-12pd guns and 87 men which had been fo seven weeks at sea however with no results.

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1. The 38-gun 5th rate handed over by the French Royalists at Toulon, France to British forces in December 1793 and finally sold on 1 September 1814?