Category: Corsairs

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

More than any other North African city, perhaps, Algiers epitomized for Europeans the horrors of piracy and the slave trade.[…]

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

(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1, 2, 3. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1 – 4. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1 – 5. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1 – 6. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

During the early decades of the seventeenth century, Morocco was convulsed by a violent civil war. In 1603, the Sa’adi[…]

Albert Ruyl, remember, had come from the Netherlands to Morocco in 1622 at the request of Moulay Zayday, the Moroccan[…]