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I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.


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Author Bio


  • NameWilliam Whipple
  • DescriptionAmerican signatory of the Declaration of Independence
  • BornJanuary 14, 1730
  • DiedNovember 28, 1785
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician