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Numerous French privateers have borne the name '''''Vengeur''''' ("Avenger"):

==French Revolutionary Wars==
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer of 12 guns that {{HMS|Blanche|1786|6}} captured on 1 October 1793.
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer that {{HMS|Rose|1783|6}} captured in the West Indies on 22 February 1794.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=21 November 1797|issue=14067|page=1114}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer commissioned at Ile de France circa September 1793 under Captain Corosin (or Carosin) with 250 men and 34 8and 6-pounder guns. The [[East Indiamen]] {{ship||Britannia|1782 EIC ship|2}} and {{ship||Nonsuch|1781|2}} captured her on 22 January 1794 during the [[Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794]]. She had sustained 37 killed and wounded.<ref>Demerliac (2004), N°2904, p. 309.</ref>
*''Vengeur'', French privateer cutter of 18 guns and 130 men. ''Lloyd's List'' reported on 22 September 1795 that ''Vengeur'' had captured several British merchant vessels.<ref>''Lloyd's List'', no,2753,[http://www.1812privateers.org/LLOYDS/1795/09-22-1795.jpg] - accessed 3 March 2015.</ref>
*''Vengeur'', privateer of 18 guns and 110 men, that {{HMS|Santa Margarita|1779|6}} captured on 27 October 1796.
*''Voltiguer'' was a French privateer schooner, formally the lugger ''Venguer''. {{HMS|Vestal|1779|6}} captured her on 14 April 1797 off Flamborough Head and took her into the Humber.
*''Vengeur des Francois'' was a French privateer of four guns and 35 men, belonging to [[Guadeloupe]], that {{HMS|Zephyr|1795|6}} captured off [[Dominica]] on 18 June 1797.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=1 August 1797|issue=14033|page=732}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a new privateer schooner of 12 guns and 72 men that {{HMS|Indefatigable|1784|6}}, {{HMS|Cambrian|1797|2}}, and {{HMS|Childers|1778|2}} captured on 11 January 1798. 
*''Vengeur'' was a French [[letter of marque]] of six guns and 36 men that [[French brig Amarante (1793)|HMS ''Amaranthe'']] captured on 13 April 1799 after a fierce and sanguinary engagement.<ref>''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 1, pp.245-6.</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer cutter of 14 guns and 105 men that {{HMS|Martin|1790|6}} captured on 28 April 1799. She was a 50-ton (French; "of load") cutter commissioned at Dunkirk in October 1795 under [[Joseph-Jean Allemès]]. She was under his command until July 1796 when Captain Margollé replaced him. Allemès resumed command in 1797, and under his command she captured numerous British vessels. Later that year Francois Sauvage-Cornu took command. In 1799 Benjamin-Richard Carny took command; at that time she had a crew of 58 men and carried 14 guns. Lastly, Charles Louis Tack replaced Carny. He sailed with 98 to 105 men and 12 to 14 guns.<ref>Demerliac (2004), №1691, p. 215.</ref>) 
*''Vengeur'' was a French schooner (the former {{HMS|Charlotte|1798|6}}), of eight guns and 80 men, that {{HMS|Solebay|1785|6}} recaptured on 24 November 1799.
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer brig of six long 4-pounders and ten 18-pounder [[carronade]]s, and a crew of 102 men that ''Indefatigable'' captured on 12 June 1800.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15271|page=749|date=28 June 1800}}</ref> ''Indefatigable'' shared the prize money with {{HMS|Sirius|1797|3}}.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=3 February 1801|issue=15334|page=151}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer lugger of two large [[swivel gun]]s and 17 men that the [[hired armed vessels|hired armed]] [[cutter (ship)|cutter]] [[Hired armed cutter Swan|''Swan'']] captured on 1 March 1801.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15342|page=254|date=3 March 1801}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer that {{HMS|Mermaid|1784|6}} captured on 11 January 1800.

==Napoleonic Wars==
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer lugger of 14 guns and 56 men that {{HMS|Cruizer|1797|6}} captured on 13 November 1806.
*''Vengeur'' was a [[felucca]]-rigged privateer of one gun and some 50 men that the boats of {{HMS|Success|1781|6}} captured on 20 November 1805; ''Vengeur'' sank as she was being towed.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=7 February 1807|issue=15998|page=157}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer of 16 guns and 48 men that {{HMS|Beagle|1804|6}} captured on 24 January 1809. She had been the schooner {{HMS|Tobago|1805|6}}, which the French had captured in 1806.<ref name="NMM-WH-377475">{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf|title=NMM, vessel ID 377475|work=Warship Histories, vol x|publisher=[[National Maritime Museum]]|accessdate=30 July 2011}}</ref>
*''Vengeur'' was a lugger privateer that {{HMS|Revenge|1805|6}} captured on 17 October 1810.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=21 May 1811|issue=16487|page=943}}</ref>

==Citations and references==
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* {{cite book|title=La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799|last=Demerliac|first=Alain|year=2004|publisher=Éditions Ancre|isbn=2-906381-24-1|language=French}}
*{{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |chapter= |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870 |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922 |pages=|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau}}

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