The Barbary corsairs, Barbary pirates, Ottoman corsairs, [1] or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) [2] were mainly Muslim corsairs and privateers who operated from the largely …

The ta'ifa of raïs (Arabic: طائفة الريس, community of corsair captains) or the Raïs for short, were Barbary pirates based in Ottoman Algeria who were involved in piracy and the slave trade in …

The Second Barbary War, also known as the U.S.–Algerian War [2] and the Algerine War, [3] was a brief military conflict between the United States and the North African state of Algiers in …

The war with Britain prevented the U.S. Government from either confronting Algerian forces or ransoming U.S. captives in Algiers. Once the Treaty of Ghent ended war with Britain, …

The Barbary Pirates thrived in Algiers for nearly 300 years. European powers so feared the pirates that they agreed to pay an annual tribute to ensure their vessels sailed through the …

2010年4月19日 · The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were an alliance of Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa from the …

2 天之前 · The Algerian Barbary Pirates were a group of North African Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean that were active from the 16th to the 18th centuries. These pirates had a …

Stretching across northern Africa, the Barbary Coast was a hotbed of pirate activity. The treasure that was sought most often were slaves stolen from European Christians and sold in the …

2007年11月30日 · The cruelties of the Algerine pirates, shewing the present dreadful state of the English slaves, and other Europeans, at Algiers and Tunis .. by Croker, Walter, captain

Piracy—robbery, kidnapping or physical violence on or from the sea, committed by independent, often unsanctioned parties of rogue sailors upon defenseless ships or coastal …