Category: Background

(This post is a continuation of Muskets – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best to read[…]

This week’s blog post is something a little different: we’re going to take a look at the muskets that Barbary[…]

Most of the posts in this blog relate the experiences of Europeans. To a large extent, this is because there[…]

Since this is the last blog post of 2020, and since, thanks to COVID-19, this year has been a sort[…]

In 1835, the Reverend Michael Russell published a book on North Africa titled History and Present Condition of the Barbary[…]

From the mid sixteen through to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Barbary corsair enterprise was huge. Corsairs ranged[…]

Both the Trinitarian and Mercedarian orders functioned quite effectively and pursued their virtuous goal of ransoming captives throughout the era[…]

These days, we have access to enormous amounts of information about the world. Documentaries take us down into the black[…]

Something a little different this week… Living in the twenty-first century as we do, with access to Google Earth, Google[…]

Father Pierre Dan (born around 1580, died in 1649) was a French Trinitarian friar. The Trinitarians, a Catholic order originally[…]