Category: Corsairs

Something a little different this week… Way back in February of 2018, I included a longish excerpt from The True[…]

The city of Algiers wasn’t always a powerful corsair capital. In fact, it wasn’t a particularly important city at all[…]

(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on the History of Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t[…]

This week’s post is another in the series from Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar who took part in[…]

(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on Algerian Corsairs – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on Algerian Corsairs – Part 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Salé, the Turbulent City – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Salé, the Turbulent City – Parts 1, 2, & 3. If you haven’t done[…]

(This post is a continuation of Salé, the Turbulent City – Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. If you haven’t[…]

On November 4, 1624, the States-General—the governing body— of the Netherlands sent an official letter of complaint to Moulay Zaydan,[…]