Rob was a freebooter with uncertain loyalty to James and was probably also engaged in cattle stealing and blackmail, old and at that time still honourable Highland practices. |
In 1891-92 Iran was roiled by protests against a tobacco monopoly granted to a British freebooter, a Major Talbot. |
To forestall them, Alfonso offered the spoils of the city to the freebooter Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called El Cid. |
Some on the island have always thought of Stanford as a freebooter who has prospered magnificently on their shores. |
To-morrow I would be an oyster pirate, as free a freebooter as the century and the waters of San Francisco Bay would permit. |
Whether you are a pirate, a privateer or a freebooter, attacks and battles are part of your daily routine. |