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The Barbary pirates of North Africa attacked the coastal northern Mediterranean launching attacks against Britain, France, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tactical defeats presented here, however, meet Carl von Clausewitz’s standard for “operations that have direct political repercussions”—namely ...

Nearly 20 years ago, a team from the Florida-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) was searching for the wreckage of an English Navy vessel that sank in the Strait of Gibraltar in 1694 ...

While the legends of José Gaspar are full of alleged adventure and swashbuckling, history tells a different story.

U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.

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The exhibition will cover piracy across the globe looking at the South China Sea, Indian Ocean and Barbary pirates who operated off the coast of North Africa. Covering theater, film and fashion ...

It is thought to refer to Barbary pirates who operated off the Cornish coast at this time. The arms also appear on a 1621 candle sconce and the town seal.

This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...