Hippolyte de Bouchard
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fr:Hippolyte de Bouchard Hippolyte de Bouchard was a French revolutionary from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most often regarded as a pirate, Bouchard was technically a corsair from the then very young free state of the "United Provinces of Rio de la Plata River," (direct ancestor of the presentArgentine Republic). He was charted by the government to have a legal "corsair license" against any property of the Spanish Empire all over the world.
On November 20 1818 Hipplyte de Bouchard raided the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, California. He hired Sir Peter Corney to captain the Santa Rosa, whose crew had muttinied. Bouchard sailed to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) to find new crew members, after much of his crew died from scurvy.