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Hippolyte de Bouchard
Hippolyte de Bouchard, or Hipolito Bouchard , was a French and Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentine, Chile, and Peru.
During his first campaign as an Argentine corsair he attacked the Spanish colonies of Chile and Peru, under the command of the Argentine-Irish Admiral William Brown.
He was the first Argentinian to circumnavigate the world. During his voyage around the world he blockaded the port of Manila, recovered, in Hawaii, an Argentine privateer which had been seized by mutineers, occupied Monterey, California, raising the Argentine flag there and claiming for that country, for a short time, a small ...
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