They were usually paid the ransack enemy ships rather than focusing on anyone else, they delivered information to people under the radar as well.
Serrlers from what is now the northwest Germany
President Lincoln was assassinated by an actor named John Wilkes Booth. Booth, who wanted the Confederacy to win the war, shot the president during a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.
How would they have been if what?
Conscription means the forced enlisting of the people of a
county into national services, the term is mostly used for military
enrollments. In Rome the conscription was enforced to a certain or some certain
classes of people which left a little choice for them to choose the skilled
people. For example people chosen for military might have come from farmer
class who know nothing about operating a war machine or anything about the war
or military which ultimately weakened the Rome. If there are less farmers in the country that simply mean there is less food to process also, another was a country could get weak.
Or the elite class was left out who already were not contributing to the good of society.