History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0169 short lesson, about 20 seconds
English Privateers
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The idea
Elizabeth favoured Atlantic advancement primarily to block Spanish efforts at eliminating Protestantism, and approved privateers: sea captains permitted to raid the enemy at will.
In practice
Francis Drake looting forty thousand pounds in silver, gold and pearls in fifteen seventy-three.
Where people slip
Privateers extracted over one hundred thousand pounds a year from Spanish Caribbean vessels.
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