Privateer 'Boscawen' Engaging a Fleet of French Ships | Charles Brooking | 1750 Size:18"x12" The Spanish Armada was a

The Spanish Armada was a Habsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia

A contemporary of the better-known Dutch marine painters

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There was a continuing campaign by various European navies and the American navy to suppress the piracy against Europeans by the North African Barbary states

Privateer 'Boscawen' Engaging a Fleet of French Ships | Charles Brooking | 1750 Size:18"x12" The Spanish Armada was aCommodore Walker's Action: the Privateer 'Boscawen' Engaging a Fleet of French Ships, 23 May 1745. Charles Brookings painting relates to the Voyages and Cruises of Commodore Walker, first published in 1760 by an unidentified author but possibly an autobiographical narrative of the adventures of the successful English privateer captain, George Walker (d. 1777). It includes his cruise commanding the privateer Boscawen a captured French frigate