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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931. Story of the Barbary corsairs. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; London: T.F. Unwin, 1890 (OCoLC)656925301 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Lane-Poole; J D Jerrold Kelley |
| OCLC Number: | 1526960 |
| Description: | 1 p. l., [vii]-xviii, 316 p. : illus., plates, maps, front; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | The Revenge of the Moors -- The Land of the Corsairs --- PART I. THE CORSAIR ADMIRALS. The Taking of Algiers. 1516-1518 -- Kheyr-ed-dIn Barbarossa: 15 18-1530 -- The Ottoman Navy: 1470-1522 -- Doria and Barbarossa: 1533 -- Tunis Taken and Lost: 1534-1535 -- The Sea-fight off Prevesa: 1537 -- Barbarossa in France: 1539-1546 -- Charles at Algiers: 1541 -- Dragut Reis: 1543-1560 -- The Knights of Malta: 1565 -- Lepanto: 1571 160-178 --- Part II. THE PETTY PIRATES. The General of the Galleys: 16th - 18th Centuries -- Galleys and Galley Slaves: 16th Century -- The Triumph of Sails: 17th Century -- The Redemption of Captives: 17th and 18th Centuries -- The Abasement of Europe: 16th to 18th Centuries -- The United States and Tripoli: 1803-5 -- The Battle of Algiers: 1816 -- The French in Africa: 1830-1881. |
| Series Title: | Story of the nations. |
| Responsibility: | by Stanley Lane Poole; with the collaboration of Lieut. J.D. Jerrold Kelley. |
Abstract:
Stanley Lane-Poole, historian and Egyptologist, writes an account of how the expatriation of the Spanish Moors at the end of the 15th Century led to their making new settlements in North Africa and elevating their skills of piracy to a fine art.
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