Plural of freebooter; multiple pirates, plunderers, or soldiers of fortune who operate independently.
Regular English pluralization of 'freebooter,' adding the '-s' suffix to indicate more than one mercenary adventurer.
The golden age of freebooters ended not through military defeat but through commercial empires becoming powerful enough to crush them—privateer licenses eventually dried up as governments monopolized seaborne violence.
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