Category: Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of Of Piracy, Profit, and Prudence — Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

In its heyday as a corsair capital, the city of Algiers had one major economic driver: piracy. Legally speaking, Algerian[…]

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[…]

(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 so[…]

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, it’s[…]

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

This week, we continue with the series of excerpts from Northern Captives and Stolen Lives, the books Karl Smári Hreinsson[…]