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Subtitle | Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean |
First Written | 2010 |
Genre | History |
Origin | US |
Publisher | Riverhead Books |
My Copy | library hardback |
First Read | January 13, 2024 |
Pirates of Barbary
Off the Isles of Scilly, about thirty miles from the southwest tip of Cornwall, they sighted a French merchant ship of seventy tons, fully laden and bound for Ireland. (Originally related to the number of tun casks of wine that a merchant ship could carry, tonnage refers to the internal volume of a vessel rather than its weight.)
Quoted on January 13, 2024