Did any of them become pirates? Were they still needed?
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A privateer was a private ship (or its captain) authorized by a country's government to attack and seize cargo from another country's ships.\n\nOverview\nPrior to the development of international law among European nations, there was no legal recourse for minor grievances. Privateering was a form of covert operation used to resolve these matters without open warfare. The government of a country provided a letter of marque and reprisal to a shipowner that allowed him to arm his ship and attack other ships sailing under a particular flag. In return he received a share of the seized cargo, while the rest went to the government as payment for the grievance.\n\nTo the target country, a privateer looked very much like a pirate, and indeed this was the intention. The only difference was that pirates were considered outlaws by all nations, while privateers had immunity from the country that commissioned them, and were considered as prisoners of war if caught by other countries. Privateers were sometimes known as "gentleman pirates". Sometimes privateers would even be commissioned to hunt down other pirates, while some of the time, privateers would commit acts of piracy without being commissioned to do so if it fit the privateer's agenda.\n\nEuropean powers renounced privateering in the 1856 Declaration of Paris. Other countries (including the United States) also renounced it under the Hague Conventions (1899/1907).\n\nPrivateers in American history\nThe United States Constitution authorized the U.S. Congress to grant letters of marque and reprisal, as did the Confederate Constitution. The Confederates used privateers during the American Civil War. Britain also used them against the U.S. after the American Revolutionary War.\n\nFamous privateers\nKanhoji Angre \nJean Bart \nWilliam Dampier \nSir Francis Drake \nJames Erisey \nAlexander Godfrey \nJonathan Haraden \nBully Hayes \nPiet Hein \nWilliam Kidd \nGödeke Michels (leader of the Likedeelers) \nSir Henry Morgan \nKlaus Störtebeker (leader of the Likedeelers) \nRobert Surcouf \nVictual Brothers or Vitalians \nEdward Teach, or Blackbeard
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It's the Pirates - You should really know
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To answer your question, no.\nThey weren't drafted and what they are doing in the middle East is often atrocious.
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Tempting to say which one?... there were SEVEN... but in the end they kinda fizzled out with a whimper not a bang...\nbasically folks got fed up and slowly support died out.\n\nThere are loads of good sites with further info... below is just one.
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Maybe they ate unicorns and heffalumps and murmaids and that's why there aren't any now. :o)\n\nIn my opinion, the whole story is a parable, so it's pointless to ask about such details.
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They played a great role. Just look on the internet to get some answers. You must have access as you posted this question and you can find it as easy as I can.☻
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If you don't talk to the power brookers in a chaos filled defacto non nation, then who do we talk to??? Somalia is a very screwed up place. We tried to help those people and got run out of the nation. We don't really support any faction. We just want you to stop being pirates and a terriorst hangout in a strategic location in the world.
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Did drought force them to discover ways to provide food? (did they come up with ways to irragate their crops?) Hope this helps!
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There were white slaves too no one ever mentions them and the freed black people had slaves too. If you show me someone who was an actual slave not just a decedent of one yes..my ancestors were slaves too and the people that want \nreparations are just to lazy to get jobs in my mind.\n\nhttp://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
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They are all taken! or do they even exist anymore?....they are an endagered species!! lol
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because pirates steal shit. its not that hard to figure out.
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Oh wait for it.. the wacky fun loving christians will have to throw biblical lines here whether you want them or not, they can't help themselves.. How about leprechauns and the tooth fairy and pirates. I do believe in pirates. I tihnk.
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We never sold our ports.  The ports belong to us.  This is about contracts for who will run the port activities.
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Yeah, some of them. But the people they steal from r usually dead or joined a dif. country. Didn't u see "The Coneheads" it a movie, n the ppl r from a dif planet. U should watch it! lol :S
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yes, definitely. The New World did need to be discovered.  It was fine on its own.
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Of course they did since most of the made up the fact that they were prophets to begin with and were faking it!  I don't believe in prophets or god so I don't think any of them were real.  One for sure I know wasn't because he declared himself to be the prophet of one religion when their holy book said there would be no more then when he was rejected by the followers he created his own religion.  Nice fake job that one!  I chalk most of them up to delusional disorders.
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Thats an interesting one my friend.My belief,unfortunately is ,that they already are!\nPirates and bandits, as long as there was no harming of innocents, were held in some reverence thanks to the poor being unharmed. Usually it was the "rich" who were robbed.\nDrug gangs harm every pillar of society in the most undiscerning way.\nTheir legacy has led to a complete dumming down of society.  Keep them ignorant and addictive= POWER. Indirectly supported by some governments.Great line of questioning though .\nTake a look at http://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com for a view of life.Take care my friend.