July 2025 – Corsairs & Captives

A SEA BATTLE

Most people have probably heard of Captain John Smith, the Englishman who wedded (or at least bedded) Pocahontas—the Indian ‘princess’—in[…]

This week, we’re going to revisit the story of the death of Aruch Barbarossa, the elder of the Barbarossa brothers.[…]

In 1612, the republic of the Netherlands negotiated a treaty with the Ottoman Sultan that guaranteed trade privileges for Dutch[…]

This week, we’re going to look at the slave population of Algiers in the early seventeenth century. First, though, a[…]

This week, we conclude the narrative of Edward Terry, in which he describes a naval encounter in the early seventeenth[…]