Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in The wider world.
State-sanctioned piracy where the monarch granted legal permission to private individuals to attack enemy ships and share the captured treasure.
Privateering appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Elizabethans (1580–1603), especially The wider world and Imperial ambition.
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