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In Stan Rogers' song "Barrett's Privateers," a royal letter of marque is issued to the captain of a sloop barely fit to cross a pond, never mind sea serious naval action. How lax were standards for getting a license to privateer in the American Revolutionary War?

by /u/MarioTheMojoMan in /r/AskHistorians

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