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Ambrose Light (ship)
''Ambrose Light'' was a brigantine, operated by Colombian rebels.〔Oppenheim, p. 435〕〔http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a/alliance.htm〕 It was captured by the USS ''Alliance'' as a suspected pirate vessel in 1885. The accusation of piracy was rejected by a court of law.
==Capture==
On April 24, Commander Lewis Clark, of the South Atlantic Squadron, was sailing to Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, when the lookouts aboard the ''Alliance'' sighted the one-gun ''Ambrose Light''. It was flying a strange flag featuring a red cross over a white background so the Americans assumed the vessel was a pirate ship. A chase began and the Americans were preparing to fire a shot over the vessel's bow when a Colombian ensign was observed and the ''Ambrose Light'' came to a halt. Commander Clark put Lieutenant M. Fisher and a boarding party on the rebel ship and it was found to have been armed with one cannon and sixty heavily armed sailors. A large cache of ammunition was also discovered. The Colombians revealed their letter of marque from the rebel leader Pedro Lara, giving the men of ''Ambrose Light'' permission to blockade Cartagena. Commander Clark disregarded this and took the rebels prisoner and the brigantine as prize. The ship was put under the command of Lieutenant Fisher with ten others and sent to be condemned in New York. After arriving on June 1, a negro stowaway was found, starving to death, hiding behind some casks in the cargo hold. The man immediately received medical attention.
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