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In 1511 Diego de Velázquez sailed from neighboring Hispaniola with some 300 conquistadores (conquerors).
A British flotilla, diverted from the Caribbean, sailed up the Mississippi with some 10,000 first-class troops.
This proud ship of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sailed clear around the North American continent via the Panama Canal and the Arctic Ocean, to plot a definitive Northwest Passage and hunt German U-boats on the way.
When Governor Antonio de Ulloa finally sailed up the Mississippi in 1766, four years after the treaty was signed, a crashing storm erupted, as if an omen for the climate ahead.
Farmer & Henley, Slang and its Analogues , defines the term as “a soldier's bastard,” although the nautical connotation occurs in a reference to The Sailor's Wordbook , which refers to women who sailed with their husbands, not to loose women.