Privateer definition

A privateer was a seaman with a license from his country's government to attack enemy ships. The government usually got a share of the profits. Read more about the privateer, pirate and naturalist William Dampier.

A privateer was a seaman with a license from his country's government to attack enemy ships. The government usually got a share of the profits.

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