#barbary pirates

[ltwilliammowett]

Barbara pirates off the coast of North Africa, by Théodore Gudin, 1846

[illustratus]

The Assault on Derna, Tripoli, 27 April 1805 — by Charles Waterhouse

[shipsandtea]

WIP INTRO POST: Between the Ruins and the Sea

May, 1801

Cornelia “Corey” Decatur is too bookish for her own good— at least that is what her mother says. As the daughter of a former privateer and ship merchant, and the younger sister of a lieutenant in the fledging Navy, she’s far too close to the sea and Philadelphia’s bustling port. But Cornelia spends her days with her brother’s discarded Greek books, transfixed by the ancient world and all its wanders. And as an aspiring classicist, she wants nothing more than to be elected as a member of the illustrious American Philosophical Society. But old schoolbooks and the city’s libraries can only take a lady so far…

When her brother Stephen receives orders to sail to the Mediterranean and fight the Barbary States, Cornelia sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Throwing away her life, she sneaks onto the frigate USS Essex as a young purser’s mate. All she needs is to keep her identity a secret until they reach Gibraltar.

Nathaniel Church knows he isn’t like his fellow lieutenants: an orphan who was taken in by a prominent Philadelphia family, he was lucky enough to receive an education and apprenticeship to a printer. He was never meant for a life at sea, no matter how badly he wanted it. All he could wish for was exciting letters from his closest childhood friend to print in the latest editions. But potential war with France changed his prospects, and now he awaits the opportunity to prove himself in Tripoli. What stands in his way?

And then he sees Corey Decatur hiding behind a cannon at the mere sight of him.

Together, Cornelia and Nathaniel must survive an Atlantic crossing and embark on a wartime journey that takes them from Gibraltar to Sicily, where danger lurks beyond the shoreline and undiscovered feelings hide in the ruins standing between them.

[secular-jew]

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.

THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.”

[bobdowling]

Engagement Between a Spanish Galleon and a Dutch Shop. (Jurien de la Gravière.)

The Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole with additions by Lieut. J.D.J. Kelley, U.S. Navy 1896

page 165

[the-golden-vanity]

Does anyone know if there exists any book in English on the Barbary Pirates that isn’t wildly racist? I cannot keep taking psychic damage from random nautical books at used book sales…

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

fun fact: one of the first conflicts involving the USA was it fighting against Arab pirates who thought Allah allowed em to enslave infidels. We don’t owe the middle East anything.

We actually fought two wars against the barbary pirates, they were so sneaky and awful, lol. But we got some cool ships out of it...

First Barbary War (1803 – 1805) - USS Constitution Museum

The First Barbary War (1801-1805) reflected the United States’s first efforts at diplomatic negotiations as a new sovereign nation. Though i

But yeah. Anyone pretending islam's dogma allowing barbarism and terrorism is new is in for a shock if they'd crack open a history book

[baebeylik]

The Sack of Baltimore occurred in 1631. It was led by a Dutchman named Jan Janszoon (Murad Reis). The motley crew of Barbary Pirates who raided the little Irish village were mostly Dutch, Turkish, and North African. They attacked Baltimore, Ireland in the dead of night and made away with hundreds of enslaved villagers. Most of the victims were Puritan colonists but a handful were native Irish. Estimates of the victims vary from one hundred to two hundred. The majority of them were likely sold in Algiers where they disappeared into horrendous obscurity.