Barbary corsairs
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The Barbary corsairs, also known as the Barbary pirates, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen, were mainly Muslim corsairs and privateers who operated from the North African coast, known in Europe as
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
Barbaria by Jan Janssonius, shows the coast of North Africa, an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria, c. 1650
An Algerine pirate ship
A man from the Barbary states
Barbary Wars
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The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states and Morocco of North Africa in the early 19th century. Sweden had b
USS Philadelphia burning at the Battle of Tripoli Harbor during the First Barbary War in 1804
Brigantine Polly of Newburyport Captured by Algerine Pirates, 1793
Painting depicting the bombardment of Tripoli on 3 August 1804
Commodore Decatur and the dey of Algiers Haji Ali Pasha