Barbary corsair ships—like all pirate ships—were armed with cannon. The oared galleys that corsairs used in the Mediterranean had cannon[…]
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Month: April 2022
CANNONS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Cannons – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best to[…]
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CANNONS – PART 3
(This post is a continuation of Cannons – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
There is a popular YouTube channel named Voices of the Past. It presents a series of videos that combine images[…]
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ICELANDERS IN ALGIERS – PART 1
Last week here in this blog, we finished a series of posts—taken from Stolen Lives, the book my Icelandic colleague,[…]
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ICELANDERS IN ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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