Category: Corsairs

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[…]

This week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Northern Captives, a book Karl Smári Hreinsson (my Icelandic colleague)[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 & 2. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 – 3. If[…]

The commander of the Salé corsairs who raided southeast Iceland in the summer of 1627 was a Dutch renegade whose[…]

Back in the summer of 1627, two lots of Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland. One group came from[…]

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