Privateer 'Boscawen' Engaging a Fleet of French Ships | Charles Brooking | 1750 Size:18"x12" Commander Faulknor is shown leading

Commander Faulknor is shown leading his men up the beach towards the fort

had submitted

which lost ten ships in total

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

sighted a strange sail at 03:00 when 120 miles south-west of Cape Finisterre

Privateer 'Boscawen' Engaging a Fleet of French Ships | Charles Brooking | 1750 Size:18"x12" Commander Faulknor is shown leadingCommodore 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