Category: Corsairs

This week, we continue with Sir Kenelm Digby’s first-person narrative of his time in Algiers in the late winter/early spring[…]

Sir Kenelm Digby—an English nobleman of the early seventeenth century—led a complicated life. His father, Sir Everard Digby, had been[…]

As we saw in a post in this blog back in December 2024 (the one on Captain John Smith, excerpted[…]

When most people think of Barbary corsairs, they think of them as being Muslims from North Africa. They were. And[…]

This week, we continue the series of posts drawn from Corsairs & Captives, my new book. This week’s excerpt is[…]

This week, we begin a series of posts consisting of extracts from Corsairs & Captives, my new book. Here is[…]

In this post, we get back to basics. Barbary corsairs are also often called Barbary pirates, but they were not[…]

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

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

(This post is a continuation of Oared Galleys – The Story of La Real: Part 1. If you haven’t done[…]