Privateers

Key term for OCR GCSE History A, used in War and British Society c.790–2010.

Definition

State-authorised civilian raiders who captured enemy ships to fund the Crown's wars.

Exam Context

Privateers appears in OCR GCSE History A revision content for British Thematic Studies, especially War and British Society c.790–2010 and War c.1500–c.1750.

British Thematic Studies War and British Society c.790–2010 War c.1500–c.1750

Found in Revision Notes

British Thematic Studies

Elizabethan Warfare and Border Society

War and British Society c.790–2010 • War c.1500–c.1750

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