sea-beggars

But by this time, in a hundred fights the sea-beggars and sea-rovers of Holland and England had destroyed the cumbrous navies of the Spanish king, and won from those who fought for his flag the mastery of the ocean.

I. Discovery and First Settlement. 1609-1626. 1906

As an exhibition of dogged courage it has never been surpassed since the time when the Dutch captain, Klaesoon, after fighting two long days, blew up his disabled ship, devoting himself and all his crew to death, rather than surrender to the hereditary foes of his race, and was bitterly avenged afterward by the grim "sea-beggars" of

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Latin races, was a creature of Teutonic civilization in the age of the sea-beggars and the Roundheads.

Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

_Briel_ by the "sea-beggars," inhabitants of the coasts of

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868