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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Privateering During the War of 1812.	Emily Rodriguez	Jun 23, 2026
	Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Romana - The American Privateers.	Grace Young	May 03, 2025
	Add new Web site: Academia - The "P" is for Profit: Revolutionary War Privateers and the Slave Trade (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Mar 06, 2025
	Add new Web site: Independent Institute - The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Privateers.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Loyalist Collection - Revolutionary Names: Privateer and Prize Ships, 1777-1814, Part 1.	Aakanksha Gaur	Oct 19, 2024
	Add new Web site: U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons - Promising Privateers?: Understanding the Constraints of Contemporary Private Security at Sea.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 06, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia - Privateering.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Yes, Privateers Mattered.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: Cato Institute - Privateers! Their History and Future.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 01, 2024
	Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trusts - The Militia of the Sea - Privateering in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 24, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Park Service - Privateers in the American Revolution.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 02, 2023
	Cross-references added.	Michael Ray	Oct 30, 2018
	Media added.	Emily Rodriguez	Jan 31, 2018
	Added video.	Amy Tikkanen	Dec 17, 2014
	Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - Privateer.	Darshana Das	Dec 27, 2010
	Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Privateers.	Darshana Das	Dec 27, 2010
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998