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It's considered misleading to say privateering is basically "legal piracy" and thus can easily be proven, with historical facts, why that's wrong. But did anyone living in the Age of Sail with a negative view towards privateering referred to privateering as "legal piracy" in some way or another?

by /u/NikKerk in /r/AskHistorians

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