Category: Background

(This post is a continuation of The Algiers Slave Market: Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

Mostly, when we think of slavery, we think of it in terms of the Africans who were forcibly shipped across[…]

The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]

Until the autumn of 1582, all the various European countries used the same calendar: the Julian calendar, named after Julius[…]

Barbary corsair ships—like all pirate ships—were armed with cannon. The oared galleys that corsairs used in the Mediterranean had cannon[…]

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

(This post is a continuation of Cannons – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]