Category: Corsairs

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 Corsair Ships: Square-Rigged Vessels – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s[…]

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

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

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

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

(This post is a continuation of English Privateers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best to[…]

  (This post is a continuation of English Privateers – Part 2: John Smith on Pirates. If you haven’t done[…]

Barbary corsairs are also often called Barbary pirates, but they were not pirates, at least not the sort of wild[…]