Month: October 2023

When people think about the relationship between North African Barbary corsairs and the European states in the seventeenth century, they[…]

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]

The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]

This week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Tines, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]