In the autumn of 1621, a merchant ship named the Jacob, out of Bristol, England, set sail for the Mediterranean.[…]
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Month: February 2019
THE TALE OF THE JACOB – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of The Tale of the Jacob – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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THE SLAVE POPULATION OF ALGIERS IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Early seventeenth century Algiers was not a large city geographically, certainly not by modern standards. It was a harbor city,[…]
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NAVAL TACTICS
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]
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