In Algiers in the seventeenth century, piracy was big business. Algerian corsairs brought back enormous amounts of booty and hundreds[…]
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Month: September 2018
THE COSTS OF OUTFITTING A SHIP FOR A PIRATE CRUISE
Have you ever wondered how much it cost to outfit a ship for a pirate cruise in the seventeenth century?[…]
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THE GAME OF RISK AND REWARD – PART 1
In the Corsair Methods of Attack posts in this blog (posted February, 2018), we looked at how Barbary corsairs conducted[…]
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THE GAME OF RISK AND REWARD – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of The Game of Risk and Reward – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]
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THE ART OF SHOOTING GREAT ORDINANCE
The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]
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