Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the premier naval vessel in and around the Mediterranean Sea was the[…]
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Month: October 2019
EARLY MODERN CURRENCY – PART 1
Early modern currency was fiendishly complicated by modern standards. Today, there are, of course, multiple currencies—the American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealand dollar, the[…]
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EARLY MODERN CURRENCY – PART 2: RANSOMS
(This post is a continuation of Early Modern Currency – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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SALÉ, THE TURBULENT CITY – PART 1
The city of Salé was a famous corsair capital during the seventeenth century. It was (and still is) actually composed[…]
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