It has been estimated that raiders from Tunis, Algiers and Tripoli alone enslaved between one million and 1.25 million ...
From William Kidd to Helen Gloag, meet the daring Scots whose exploits rivalled the Caribbean’s most famous buccaneers.
As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, they turned their attention to the 'Barbary pirates' of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Naval commanders, ...