Louis-Michel AuryPapers 1808-1821

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Louis-Michel AuryPapers 1808-1821

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Letters, inventory,statements of account, memorial, and drawing relating to Aury (ca. 1788-1821).

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Aury, Louis-Michel

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Louis Michel Aury, pirate, was born in Paris about 1788. He served in the French navy and on French privateers from 1802 or 1803 until 1810, when accumulation of prize money enabled him to become master of his own vessels. He sailed from a North Carolina port with a Venezuelan commission in April 1813 and reached Cartagena in May. In August 1813 he was given command over the Granadine Republic's privateer schooners, a service that ended in January 1816, when he reached Aux Cayes, Ha...