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Thread #5843   Message #223577
Posted By: The Walrus
05-May-00 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Barrett's Privateers (Stan Rogers)
Subject: RE: Barrett's Privateers - Can anyone help us?
>Privateers 1n 1778?? A little late boys?!? LOL!! Makes >the song even funnier really!

Why so?, If the war went into the 1780s, there was still a chance of merchant prizes (and privateering wasn't outlawed until sometime around the 1860s).

As you may have gathered, the American RevWar isn't my period of history.

Regards

Tom