Category: Corsairs

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[…]

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,[…]