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Volunteer Navy
Webster's Dictionary
A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not come within the meaning of the term privateer.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Volunteer Navy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​v/volunteer-navy.html. 1828.