French_ship_Brutus

French ship<i> Brutus</i>

French ship Brutus

List of ships with the same or similar names

Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brutus in honour of several Roman politicians named Brutus:

Note: The Brutus Français, (ex-Pulaski, ex-Pichegru, and frequently referred to in news reports as Brutus), was a French 20-gun privateer operating highly successfully out of Charleston, South Carolina in 1795, in the Caribbean. This was not Brutus (1780–1795) above.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Jackson, Melvin H. (1969) Privateers in Charleston 1793-1796: An Account of a French Palatinate in South Carolina. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology No. 1. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press).
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