357 Privateering in the American Revolution
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The British Navy and the American Revolution
On paper, the British really don't seem to need privateers because they have the world's biggest and most successful navy during the 1770s. But if you look at the British navy, well, that's an entirely different story. Chris wonders what this professional British navy made of the American's use of privateers in their fight for independence. And he also wonders whether the British or any other European powers involved in this war also employed privateers.
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