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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.

THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON ICELAND IN 1627

April 1, 2018 Adam Nichols Book Recommendations

In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting a total[…]

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FATHER PIERRE DAN AND THE 1634 RANSOMING EXPEDITION TO ALGIERS – PART 1

March 25, 2018 Adam Nichols Captives

Europeans captives enslaved in Algiers dreamed of one thing above all others: being ransomed. If you were a citizen of[…]

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FATHER PIERRE DAN AND THE 1634 RANSOMING EXPEDITION TO ALGIERS – PART 2

March 25, 2018 Adam Nichols Captives

(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan and the 1634 Ransoming Expedition to Algiers – Part 1. If[…]

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CAPTIVE ICELANDERS IN ALGIERS

March 18, 2018 Adam Nichols Captives

In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland and captured close to 500 people whom they carted off to[…]

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THE TRUE AND INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF THE SPICE TRADER WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY

March 11, 2018 Adam Nichols Book Recommendations

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the period when the Barbary corsairs were at their height, pillaging mercilessly throughout the[…]

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BARBARY CORSAIR SHIPS: SQUARE-RIGGED VESSELS – PART 1

March 4, 2018 Adam Nichols Corsairs

By the early decades of the seventeenth century, Barbary corsairs were employing two very different types of ships: oared galleys[…]

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BARBARY CORSAIR SHIPS: SQUARE-RIGGED VESSELS – PART 2

March 4, 2018 Adam Nichols Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of Corsair Ships: Square-Rigged Vessels – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s[…]

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CORSAIR METHODS OF ATTACK – PART 1

February 22, 2018 Adam Nichols Corsairs

Barbary corsair ships—whether the galleys that hunted the Mediterranean or the square-rigged ships that plied the Atlantic littoral—were armed. Galleys[…]

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CORSAIR METHODS OF ATTACK – PART 2

February 22, 2018 Adam Nichols Corsairs

  (This post is a continuation of Corsair Methods of Attack – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

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CORSAIR METHODS OF ATTACK – PART 3

February 22, 2018 Adam Nichols Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of Corsair Methods of Attack – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

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