Kill chain
It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin’s opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.
26th October 1814: The American privateer "General Armstrong," captained by Sam Reid repulses a British attack in the Azores during the War of 1812 in this lithograph by Nathaniel Currier.
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In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable to do so.
