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What is the difference between a buccaner and a pirate?
The two words generally mean the same thing.
Only Caribbean pirates were ever called Buccaneers, pirates in other areas of the world were never called Buccaneers.
A privateer is the agent of a sovereign state. Usually he is commissioned to harass the shipping of some specific other country or countries, and he is allowed to keep what goods he can capture as...
Pirates are criminals and thieves who lives on his ship in the ocean. they raid other ships, often killing the occupants in order to steal their ship.
A privateer is a pirate ordered by his...