Category: Corsairs

(This post is a continuation of Barbary Corsair Ships and Tactics – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

This week, we continue with the series of posts on Barbary corsair ships and tactics. We ended last week’s post,[…]

Barbary corsairs employed two basic sorts of ships: oared galleys (which hunted the Mediterranean) or square-rigged ships (which plied the[…]

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

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

As we saw in a post in this blog back in December 2024 (the one on Captain John Smith, excerpted[…]

When most people think of Barbary corsairs, they think of them as being Muslims from North Africa. They were. And[…]

This week, we continue the series of posts drawn from Corsairs & Captives, my new book. This week’s excerpt is[…]

This week, we begin a series of posts consisting of extracts from Corsairs & Captives, my new book. Here is[…]

In this post, we get back to basics. Barbary corsairs are also often called Barbary pirates, but they were not[…]