The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman...
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shifted to kidnapping for ransom. By the 19th century, pirate activity had declined, but Barbary pirates continued to demand tribute from American merchant...
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independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were captured by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to...
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The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the Barbary Wars, in which the United...
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been rampant along the North African "Barbary" coast of the Mediterranean Sea since the 16th century. Algerian pirates and privateers intermittently preyed...
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Golden Age of Piracy (redirect from Golden Age of Pirates)
included the activities of the Barbary corsairs and East Asian pirates in this "Golden Age," noting that "as these Mussulman pirates and those of Eastern Asia...
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It was part of an effort to destroy the Barbary pirates and end piracy between warring tribes by the Barbary states, which were themselves member states...
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Treaty of Tripoli (redirect from Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary)
it had to face the threat of the Barbary pirates on its own. Two American ships were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced...
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following Barbary pirate raids, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone lost 466 merchant ships to Barbary pirates. Commercial...
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Sack of Baltimore (category Barbary slave raids)
pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – the raiders included Dutchmen, Algerians, and Ottoman Turks. The attack was the largest by Barbary slave...
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Jack Ward (redirect from John Ward (pirate))
Society. Tinniswood (2010). Pirates of Barbary by Adrian Tinniswood. Vintage Books. "Pirate History and Reference Famous Pirates and Privateers". Privateer...
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(1836) Barbary pirates First Barbary War Second Barbary War Barbary Coast London, Joshua E.Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established...
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culture among pirates who came from different backgrounds and nationalities. Historically, the Barbary Coast contained a number of pirate havens, notably...
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Slavery in Britain (section Barbary pirates)
and 1.25 million Europeans were captured and sold as slaves by Barbary pirates and Barbary slave traders from Tunis, Algiers and Tripoli (in addition to...
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and American sailors Barbary pirates Berberia (genus), a genus of butterflies from North Africa Barbary (disambiguation) Barbary Coast Bunny, a 1956 Bugs...
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American–Algerian War (1785–1795) (category Barbary Wars)
United States Navy. Beginning in the early modern period, Barbary pirates operating out of the Barbary Coast targeted Christian European merchant shipping,...
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supported the plan to fight Muslim pirates from North Africa. These pirates had their main base at Mahdia on the Barbary coast. Genoa was ready to supply...
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number of British sailors who became pirates based in the Maghreb who also converted to Islam (see also Barbary pirates). Later, some Unitarians became interested...
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century, presented a gift of four eunuchs to Emperor Constantine VII. Barbary pirates and Maltese corsairs both raided for slaves and purchased slaves from...
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The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the...
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Jolly Roger (redirect from Pirate flag)
although the problem of Barbary pirates persisted until the French conquest of Algeria in 1830. By the Victorian era, the pirate threat had receded enough...
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Studios and Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure at Shanghai Disneyland, as well as several spin-off novels, including the Pirates of the...
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copyrights to Pirates and their other operas. Fiction and plays about pirates were ubiquitous in the 19th century. Walter Scott's The Pirate (1822) and James...
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problems with pirates operating from ports along North Africa's so-called Barbary Coast – Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis. In 1784–85, Algerian pirate ships seized...
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the pirates, and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants; after 1600 Barbary pirates occasionally...
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White slavery (section Barbary slave trade)
particularly Spain and Italy. From bases on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and...
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Slave raiding (section Barbary pirates)
via the Crimean slave trade over the course of four centuries. The Barbary pirates from the 16th century onwards through 1830 engaged in razzias in Africa...
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romantic or flamboyant way of referring to privateers, or even to pirates. The Barbary pirates of North Africa as well as the Ottoman Empire were sometimes...
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the 20th-century, as well as a center of the Barbary slave trade of Europeans captured by the Barbary pirates until the 19th-century. The open slave trade...
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