Sixteenth-century sea warfare blurred merchant enterprise, piracy, and national conflict.
Evidence
European seafarers, consequently, learned to live in a difficult dangerous world in which the distinctions between merchant and corsair, trade and plunder, and peace and war were blurred. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1365
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1365
- XREF: connects to: Drake raids transformed privateering into an existential conflict between nations — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1; Privateers operated as government-authorized raiders for nations with weak formal navies. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 200; European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict