Category: Corsairs

(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[…]

The relationship between the North African Barbary corsair states and European countries was, of course, an adversarial one. The borders[…]

When most people think of seventeenth century pirate ships, they think of the sort of vessel depicted in the image[…]

Of the four main types of square-rigged ships employed by the Salé corsairs—tartanes, snows, polaccas, and caravels—one of the most[…]

Way back in February of 2018, I uploaded a post on Captain Henry Mainwaring, the (in)famous English pirate. Mainwaring is[…]

Last week, we took a first look at a work titled Of the Beginnings, Practices, and Suppression of Pirates, written[…]

This week, we continue with the excerpt from Of the Beginnings, Practices, and Suppression of Pirates, written by Captain Henry[…]

Something a little different this week… Way back in February of 2018, I included a longish excerpt from The True[…]