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Privateering and piracy in the colonial period: illustrative documents

"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"--Preface

Print Book, English, 1923
Macmillan Co., New York, NY, 1923