November 2025 – Corsairs & Captives

THE TAKING OF THE PEÑÓN OF ALGIERS – PART 2

Last week, we looked at how Hayreddin Barbarossa—one of the infamous Barbarossa brothers—took the Peñón of Algiers (a fort the[…]

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Algiers wasn’t a particularly important place. It’s transformation into what it eventually became—the[…]

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

Last week, we looked at the life of Claes Compaen, the Dutchman who began his piratical career as a licensed[…]