Privateer

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A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in commerce raiding under a commission of war. Since piracy was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms.

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Image: Nicolas Cammillieri (1773–1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.