''General Augereau'' (or ''General Angereaux'') was a

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launched in 1801 and recommissioned in Bayonne in 1803 as a privateer. She made a small number of captures during her first cruise, but then the British

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captured her in February 1805 during her second cruise. She became a British merchantman, sailing between

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and Liverpool, and was last listed in 1813.

French privateer

''General Augereau'' was recommissioned as a privateer in Bayonne in July 1803. From July 1803 to September 1804, she was under the command of

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, with 11 officers, 74 men, and 12

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. On 2 May 1804 ''Ranger'', Phelps, master, and ''Mary Ann'', Doyle, master, sailed from Waterford, bound for Newfoundland. They were under escort by , but separated from her that same night in a gale. On 6 May ''General Angereaux'', of Bayonne, 16 guns and 120 men, captured them about 160 miles from

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. ''General Angereaux'' plundered ''Ranger'', but then gave her up to the crews and passengers of both vessels. ''Ranger'' arrived back at Waterford on 10 May. ''Mary Ann'' was sent for Spain or France. In April 1804 ''General Angereaux'' captured and sank ''Sisters'', Rowe, master, which was on a voyage from

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. ''General Angereaux'' put the crew aboard ''Sampson'', which arrived at Torbay. On 6 June the "privateer Angereau" captured ''Zephyr'', Jackson, master, which was on her way from Gibraltar and Lisbon to Cork. The capture took place off Cape Clear. ''Angereau'' took ''Zephyr'' into Muros. On the same cruise she also captured ''Marguerite'', ''Marianne'', and ''Lovely''. On 4 August 1804 was returning to Liverpool from Demerara when ''General Augereau'', of 12 guns and 90 men, captured her. In the action leading up to the capture, Captain Phillips, his son, a passenger, and a seaman were killed, and the mate, a passenger and seven seamen wounded; ''General Auguereau'' had three men killed and her captain and five men wounded. On 9 August recaptured ''William Heathcote'' and sent her into Plymouth. On 8 August 1804 encountered ''General Augereau'' and chased her for three days, but ''General Augereaux'' eventually escaped in light winds. ''General Augereau'' was under the command of a different captain from late 1804 to February 1805, with 70 to 88 men, until captured her on 13 February 1805 in the Caribbean. "''General Angereau''" arrived at Cork in March. She was armed with fourteen 12-pounder carronades, had a crew of 88 men, and had been out 47 days without having captured anything.

English merchantman

''General Angereau'' first appeared in ''

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