Category: Corsairs

For the past three weeks, we’ve been looking at the story of the (in)famous Barbarossa brothers (Aruch, the elder, and[…]

This week, we continue the story of the Barbarossa brothers—those (in)famous pirates—as recounted by Father Pierre Dan in his book[…]

This week, we continue the story of the Barbarossa brothers—(in)famous pirates—as recounted by Father Pierre Dan in his book Histoire[…]

The Barbarossa brothers were famous pirates. Most people with any interest at all in pirates are familiar with the name[…]

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

This week, we continue with the series of posts on Barbary corsair ships and tactics. We ended last week’s post,[…]

Barbary corsairs employed two basic sorts of ships: oared galleys (which hunted the Mediterranean) or square-rigged ships (which plied the[…]

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[…]