privateers's Usage Examples:

incentive increased the risk of privateers turning to piracy when war ended.

The commission usually protected privateers from accusations of piracy, but.

Notable privateers.

the privateers.

If the privateers stepped outside their official remit and raided a city, any resultant plunder would be retained by the privateers.

Once captured, the privateers could bring the case of that prize before their own admiralty court for.

The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping.

captain of the schooner Liverpool Packet and was one of the most successful privateers on the North American Atlantic coast during the War of 1812.

Buccaneers were a kind of privateers or free sailors peculiar to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) were a loosely organized guild of privateers who later turned to piracy.

negotiations, culminating in the XYZ Affair, failed to resolve the issue, French privateers began attacking merchant ships in American waters.

post-Spanish Succession period (1715 to 1726), when Anglo-American sailors and privateers left unemployed by the end of the War of the Spanish Succession turned.

however, regarded as privateers, and other privateers were entirely financed by private individuals: in both cases, the privateers operated as their owners.

privateers to spend their treasure during the 17th century.

When those governments abandoned the practice of issuing letters of marque to privateers against.

The Sea Dogs were a group of sea-raiders and privateers who were authorized by Elizabeth I of England and active from 1560-1605.

Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth.

Synonyms:

officer; privateersman; ship"s officer; crewman; crew member;

Antonyms:

submersible; surface ship; civilian; employer;