PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND CORSAIRS
In this post, we get back to basics. Barbary corsairs are also often called Barbary pirates, but they were not[…]
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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.
BARBARY CORSAIR SHIPS: SQUARE-RIGGED VESSELS – PART 2
(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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BARBARY CORSAIR SHIPS: SQUARE-RIGGED VESSELS – PART 1
By the early decades of the seventeenth century, Barbary corsairs were employing two very different types of ships: oared galleys[…]
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TYRKJARANS-SAGA: EINAR LOPTSSON’S EXPERIENCE AS A SLAVE IN ALGIERS – PART 2
This week continues with the excerpt from Tyrkjarans-Saga describing the experiences of Einar Loptsson, an Icelander enslaved in Algiers in[…]
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TYRKJARANS-SAGA: EINAR LOPTSSON’S EXPERIENCE AS A SLAVE IN ALGIERS – PART 1
In the summer of 1627, two sets of Barbary corsairs—one from Salé, one from Algiers—raided Iceland. The Salé corsairs pillaged[…]
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DEFINITELY A COMPLICATED ALLIANCE
When people think about the relationship between North African Barbary corsairs and the European states in the seventeenth century, they[…]
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NAVAL TACTICS
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]
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THE ART OF SHOOTING GREAT ORDINANCE
The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]
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TURBULENT TIMES – BISHOP ODDUR EINARSSON
This week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Tines, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
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TURBULENT TIMES – SKÁLHOLTSSKÓLI
This week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Times, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
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