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George Washington was skeptical about Benedict Arnold's proposal to take up privateering in the Caribbean, and if he had said no his career as a pirate would never have taken up. What would Arnold have done otherwise? And how would this have affected the American War of Independence?

OOC: yes, according to the biography of Arnold, Valiant Ambition, Arnold really did propose this in 1778 but got turned down.
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