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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

By J. Franklin Jameson

2019-02-02 00:31:18

A privateer is an armed vessel (or its commander) which, in time of war, though owners and officers and crew are private persons, has a commission from a belligerent government to commit acts of warfare on vessels of its enemy"--Pref.
A privateer is an armed vessel (or its commander) which, in time of war, though owners and officers and crew are private persons, has a commission from a belligerent government to commit acts of warfare on vessels of its enemy"--Pref. Less

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File size735.823 KB
Print pages619
PublisherPublic domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1230000152209
John Franklin Jameson (September 19, 1859 – September 28, 1937) was an American historian, author, and journal editor who played a major role in the professional activities of American historians in...

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