A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of...
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The Privateer Industries Privateer is an American amphibious amateur-built aircraft that was designed by John Meekins and Bill Husa and is under development...
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by Baen Books. It consists of The Rising (published in 1996), The Privateer (1999) and The Independent Command (2000). The Rising begins in media res during...
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Look up privateer or privateering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A privateer is a pirate operating on behalf of a government. Privateer may also refer...
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storyline is part of the Wing Commander series. The player takes the role of Grayson Burrows, a "privateer" who travels through the Gemini Sector, one of...
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The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer is an American World War II and Korean War era patrol bomber of the United States Navy derived from the Consolidated...
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Wing Commander (franchise) (redirect from Privateer II: The Darkening)
Clive Owen in Privateer 2: The Darkening. The Wing Commander game series began in 1990 with Wing Commander. The newest addition to the series, Wing Commander...
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motorsport, a privateer is usually an entrant into a racing event that is not directly supported by an automobile or motorcycle manufacturer. Privateers teams...
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Privateer 2: The Darkening is a space flight simulation game that was released in 1996 for MS-DOS and published by Electronic Arts under the Origin Systems...
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Privateer Press is a role-playing game, miniature wargame, acrylic paint, board game and card game production and publishing studio. Privateer Press is...
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Henry Morgan (redirect from Henry Morgan (privateer))
Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan; c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his...
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USS Privateer (SP-179), later YP-179, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1930. Privateer was...
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A patent privateer or intellectual property privateer is a party, typically a patent assertion entity, authorized by another party, often a technology...
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Privateer Holdings is an American private equity company that invests in the legal cannabis industry. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and employs...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from Congress (privateer))
Pole repulses the privateer American Tartar 1778, April 24 – USS Ranger captures HMS Drake (details) 1778, December – the Bristol privateer Tartar has an...
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The Privateer Yacht Club is a private yacht club located in Hixson, Tennessee, on the shore of Chickamauga Lake (United States). The club is also the...
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A privateer was a private person authorized by a country's government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping. Privateering was an accepted part...
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Privateering is the seventh solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 3 September 2012 by Mercury Records...
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Letter of marque (category Privateering)
license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer...
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The White Lion was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque which brought the first Africans to the English colony of Virginia in...
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The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping...
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"Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired...
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August 1511) was a Scottish sailor from Leith. He gained notoriety as a privateer, making raids against Portuguese ships. He was killed in battle and memorialised...
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Privateer is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,118 at the 2000 census. It is included...
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The Ireland Privateer was a 1930s American two-seat, single pusher-engined monoplane sports flying boat which could be equipped as an amphibian. About...
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The New Orleans Privateers are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of New Orleans (also known locally as UNO), located in the Lake Terrace/Lake...
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French ship Mars (redirect from French privateer Mars)
1906. Several French privateers also bore the name. Mars (1746), involved in the Skirmish of Loch nan Uamh on 2 May 1746 during the Jacobite rising and...
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The Maritime Privateers are an intercollegiate athletic program in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III representing the State...
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teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive privateer teams never built their own chassis. Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful...
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Corsair (redirect from The Corsair (newspaper))
corsair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially: Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber privateers operating from North...
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