no theres a difference in pirates and in privateers....
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Pirates who operated with the approval of European governments were called privateers.
Pirates tend to raid ships, which is frowned upon in the boating society. Privateers, however, perform deliveries of substances, both legal and illegal. Privateers are sometimes victims of pirates.
When the pirates starting attacking ships of the same governments that originally hired them.
Privateers committed acts of piracy, but were sanctioned by a head of state to do such against an enemy of that state. Many of them became pirates after privateering was no longer sanctioned.
A private vessel incorporated into a navy by Letters of Marque. In former times captains of privateers were often basically pirates, limiting themselves to the merchant shipping of the enemy, in the hope of gaining rich loot thereby. Stan Rogers' song Barratt's Privateers is attached.
They were known as Privateers.
Ahmed They carried a royal warrant and were called "Privateers" but if you were on the receiving end of this private enterprise you called them pirates.
It didn't exist. The British ruled America, so if you mean the British Navy, it was the biggest in the world. The American rebels had some pirates/privateers however, in the war of Independence.
Pirates like gold. Pirates do not like Ninjas.