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'''William Augustus Bowles''' ([[1763]]-[[1805]]), also known as '''Estajoca''' and traditionally often confused with the privateer known as '''Billy Bowlegs''', was a Maryland-born English adventurer who served with the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as an ensign during the American Revolution, having joined the British Army as part of a foot solider at fourteenprovincial battalion. By In [[1777]] he was an ensign held the rank of Ensign, the lowest officer rank in the British Navy, army at the time. He travelled with which he sailed the Maryland Loyalist Battalion when they went by ship to Jamaica and later Pensacola, but was stripped of where he resigned his rank for insubordination , and dereliction went into the wilderness. It is this rank of duty"ensign" that confuses scholars even today, as it was at that time a rank for the army.