Category: Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of The Affair of the Vliegende Hert – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Affair of the Vliegende Hert – Parts 1, 2, & 3. If you[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Affair of the Vliegende Hert – Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. If[…]

At the height of his success as an Algiers-based corsair, the Dutch renegade corsair Captain Simon Dancer commanded a sizeable[…]

Not too long after the spectacularly successful raid on the Canary Islands, Mustaffa Reis replaced de Veenboer as head of[…]

The early seventeenth century was a wild, violent time. The discovery of the New World a century before—and the riches[…]

(This post is a continuation of Privateering — The Business of Piracy: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

Barbary corsairs were Muslims operating out of North African ports, but they were not all North Africans. Quite a number[…]

(This post is a continuation of Renegade Corsair Captains: the Tale of Simon Dancer – Part 1. If you haven’t[…]

The idea that Dutch privateers should have ended up among the Barbary corsairs of North Africa may at first seem[…]