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Why were privateers important to the american war at sea

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A privateer is a privately owned ship outfitted with weapons, and they were important to the American war at sea so that they could capture enemy merchant ships and cargo. ... General Charles Cornwallis could not control the area he had conquered and he and his troops faced a new kind of warfare, and the British won.

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