The term Carthaginian ( la, Carthaginiensis ) usually refers to a citizen of
Ancient Carthage
Carthage () was a settlement in modern Tunisia that later became a city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest metropolises in t ...
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It can also refer to:
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Carthaginian (ship)
''Carthaginian'' was a three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in Hawaii. Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted schooner ''Wandia'', she was converted in 1964–1965 in ...
, a three-masted schooner built in 1921
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Insurgent privateer
Insurgent privateers ( es, corsarios insurgentes) were private armed vessels recruited by the insurgent governments during the Spanish American wars of independence to destroy Spanish trade and capture Spanish merchant vessels.
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s; nineteenth-century South American
privateers, particularly those hailing from
Cartagena, Colombia, and flying the insurgent flag were often called "Carthaginians" in the contemporary British and American press. Occasionally 19th century vessels in the Mediterranean hailing from
Cartagena, Spain, too might be referred to as "Carthaginian".
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