Category: Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of Calafat Hassan – the Tale of a Corsair Reis: Part 1. If you haven’t[…]

During the age of the Barbary corsairs, successful corsair captains were not only wealthy and important men; they were folk[…]

The image at the top of this post is a digital reproduction of a seventeenth century painting depicting a sea[…]

(This post is a continuation of Of Piracy, Profit, and Prudence — Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

In its heyday as a corsair capital, the city of Algiers had one major economic driver: piracy. Legally speaking, Algerian[…]

By the early decades of the seventeenth century, Barbary corsairs were employing two very different types of ships: oared galleys[…]

(This post is a continuation of Corsair Ships: Square-Rigged Vessels – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s[…]

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

(This post is a continuation of English Privateers – Part 2: John Smith on Pirates. If you haven’t done so[…]

Barbary corsair ships—whether the galleys that hunted the Mediterranean or the square-rigged ships that plied the Atlantic littoral—were armed. Galleys[…]