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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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private n. an enlisted person in the armed forces of the lowest rank, in particular an enlisted person in the U.S. Army or Marine Corps ranking below private first class.
adj.
1. (of a person) having no official or public role or position.
2. not connected with one's work or official position: the president was visiting China in a private capacity.
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British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century.
Magazine article from: Business History; 4/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...so begins this important study of privateering; an aspect of sea power once commonplace...profit. As Starkey demonstrates, privateering can only be properly understood if...British economy. The historian of privateering is not hampered by a dearth of evidence...
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Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763
Magazine article from: The Americas; 7/1/2005; ; 610 words
; BOOKS IN BRIEF Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763...Elizabeth Harman's study Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763...sea-going commerce. Trade and Privateering is based on analysis of ship cargos...
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Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 458 words
; 1403966923 Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands. Lunsford, Virginia West. Palgrave...Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces...
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Privatization -- or modern privateering
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/30/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...bidder. The Weld administration is heeding the clarion call of "privatization." Privatization is the modern version of privateering, a practice -- used possibly by some of the ancestors of our current leadership -- in which the government commissioned...
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 "Herald Express (Torquay UK)")
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Mutineers, patriots and rogues There was nothing romantic about a life of piracy and privateering says author E T Fox of Brixham, a consultant on the blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest and its sequel, At World's End.
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK); 8/29/2007; 700+ words
; There was nothing romantic about a life of piracy and privateering says author E T Fox of Brixham, a consultant on the blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest and its sequel...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Privateering; Reforming probation.(A new bill tests MPs' enthusiasm for contracting out the criminal-justice system)(Offender Management Bill)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/3/2007; 700+ words
; Community sentences can work Yet another public service faces contracting out. Will it work? WHEN a gang of enlightened Warwickshire magistrates invented probation two centuries ago, privatisation was no big deal. Young offenders were released into the charge of a local employer, who kept them busy
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The Unlikely Role of a Patriot Pirate Navy; Privateers whipped the British, and some amassed great fortunes to boot.(continental navy)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 7/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...commodities and African slaves. In Britain, privateering caused the price of imports and maritime...captured ship. Although a six-week privateering jaunt turned into two years of combat...to France and a strong supporter of privateering, had no illusions about defeating...
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Guerrilla war on the high seas: confederate privateers and commerce raiders made life risky for Union shippers.(Reprint)
Magazine article from: Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; ; 700+ words
; ...of maritime economic warfare, and privateering was sometimes referred to by its French...All the expenses of fitting out a privateering ship and supplying it, as well as...Paris of 1856 had officially abolished privateering among civilized nations, the United...
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Lost In The Myth
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/27/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...that he was picked up by the British privateering vessel Duke, commanded by Captain...out with the captain of the English privateering vessel Cinque Ports (on which he was...leaking badly. The vessel, part of a privateering expedition led by the buccaneer and...
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Legalized piracy in 1775.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/13/2008; 700+ words
; ...writes at the start that American "privateering legalized piracy in the shortest of...ideals. "The enterprise [i.e., privateering] combined service and self-interest...Patton's provocative conclusion that privateering created a legacy of daring and dynamic...
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Privateering
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Privateering. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth...European and American officials supported privateering because it threatened enemy commerce...patriotic windfall profits. American privateering expanded in each imperial conflict...
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Privateers and Privateering
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PRIVATEERS AND PRIVATEERING PRIVATEERS AND PRIVATEERING. Historians of ten consider the operations of Sir John...sixteenth-century Elizabethan freebooters as the origin of privateering in America, but the participation of privately armed...
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privateering
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
privateering former usage of war permitting privately...pirate craft. The primary object of privateering was to harass the enemy, but it was...as a retaliatory measure. Licensed privateering dates back to the 13th cent., but...
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The Western Invasion: Privateers and The Settlement of North America
Book article from: American Eras
...survived for more than a year. Through privateering, however, the French, British...increasing as the century progressed, privateering raids ultimately came to play an important...colonization of North America. Beginnings. Privateering originated as a way for merchants to...
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Pre-1600: Trade and Commerce: Overview
Book article from: American Eras
...World: predatory commerce through privateering raids in the waters off North America...European trade for their survival. Privateering. Before 1600 the nations of western...the waters off North America through privateering raids against Spanish shipping that...
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