What role did privateer play in the war of 1812

When the United States Constitution was drafted it contained a provision for the federal government to authorize privateers. In the War of 1812 American privateers played a major role, as armed merchant ships sailing from American ports attacked, seized, or destroyed a great many British merchant ships.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

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