JÓN JÓNSSON: A CAPTIVE’S TALE – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Jón Jónsson: a Captive’s Tale – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Jón Jónsson: a Captive’s Tale – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Jón Jónsson: a Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Jón Jónsson: a Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, & 3. If you haven’t[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Jón Jónsson: a Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. If you[…]
Read moreHave you ever wondered how people built wooden sailing ships in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? The process seems, on[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Shipbuilding in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries – Part 1. If you haven’t done[…]
Read moreAt the height of his success as an Algiers-based corsair, the Dutch renegade corsair Captain Simon Dancer commanded a sizeable[…]
Read moreNot too long after the spectacularly successful raid on the Canary Islands, Mustaffa Reis replaced de Veenboer as head of[…]
Read moreThe early seventeenth century was a wild, violent time. The discovery of the New World a century before—and the riches[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Privateering — The Business of Piracy: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
Read more