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Useful writerly trivia for the day: letters of marque
Via James Nicoll, we learn that the United States, having blown off that whole Declaration of Paris thing, can still legally issue letters of marque.
Posted on March 1, 2007 at 8:55 pm in Elsewhere · comment
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