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Month: December 2023

ALGIERS IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

December 25, 2023 Adam Nichols Background

In early May of 1619, Jean-Baptiste Gramaye—a professor at the University of Leuven, in Brabant, in what is now Belgium—had[…]

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JOÃO DE CARVALHO MASCARENHAS: WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A GALLEY SLAVE

December 18, 2023 Adam Nichols Captives

We started this year (2023) with a series of excepts from a captivity narrative written by a Portuguese soldier named[…]

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PRIVATEERING — THE BUSINESS OF PIRACY: PART 2

December 10, 2023 Adam Nichols Background

(This post is a continuation of Privateering — The Business of Piracy: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

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PRIVATEERING — THE BUSINESS OF PIRACY: PART 1

December 3, 2023 Adam Nichols Background

The early seventeenth century was a wild, violent time. The discovery of the New World a century before—and the riches[…]

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