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The designation "corsair" for admiral Ita is questionable. It may be true that in Spanish historiography these Dutch "interlopers" in the Spanish colonial empire were considered "pirates", but they were fighting in an officially declared war (the Eighty Years' War was restarted in 1621) and in the employ of a chartered company (the Dutch West India Company) that was officially charged by the Dutch government with waging war on its behalf. Ita and his colleague Piet Heyn may be considered "privateers", but they were certainly not corsairs. Alternatively, if Ita and Heyn were corsairs, so were Francis Drake or John Hawkins, but the English Wikipedia does not use this designation for the latter.--Ereunetes (talk) 18:42, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
