FATHER PIERRE DAN: RANSOMING CAPTIVES IN ALGIERS – PART 2
This week we continue the story of Father Pierre Dan’s ransoming expedition to Algiers in 1634. When Yusuf Basha (the[…]
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Author: Adam Nichols
I'm an associate professor with the University of Maryland, in the U.S. I spent twenty years teaching for the University of Maryland’s European division, in England, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, and downrange on military installations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I've also lived and worked in Australia, China, and Canada. I presently live in the U.S.
FATHER PIERRE DAN: RANSOMING CAPTIVES IN ALGIERS – PART 1
Europeans captives enslaved in Algiers dreamed of one thing above all others: being ransomed. If you were a citizen of[…]
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AN ENGLISHMAN IN ALGIERS – PART 2
This week, we continue with Sir Kenelm Digby’s first-person narrative of his time in Algiers in the late winter/early spring[…]
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AN ENGLISHMAN IN ALGIERS
Sir Kenelm Digby—an English nobleman of the early seventeenth century—led a complicated life. His father, Sir Everard Digby, had been[…]
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ENGLISH PRIVATEERS – cont’d
As we saw in a post in this blog back in December 2024 (the one on Captain John Smith, excerpted[…]
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ENGLISH PRIVATEERS
When most people think of Barbary corsairs, they think of them as being Muslims from North Africa. They were. And[…]
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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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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 1
This week, we’re going to do something a little different. Instead of presenting excerpts from old texts, we’re going to[…]
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