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The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and enslaved more than a million Christians.
Lords of the Sea relates the history of these pirates, examining their dramatic impact as the maritime vanguard of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1500s through their breaking from Ottoman control in the early seventeenth century. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs rose to the apogee of their powers during this period, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and venturing as far as England, Ireland, and Iceland. Serving as a vital component of the main Ottoman fleet, the Barbary pirates also conducted independent raids of Christian ships and territory. While their activities declined after 1700, Jamieson reveals that it was only in the early nineteenth century that Europe and the United States finally curtailed the Barbary menace, a fight that culminated in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of exploration, slavery, and conquest.
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INDEX
A Christian Turn’d Turke 90
Aachen 206
Abd al-Malik 71
Abdallah, ruler of Morocco 185
Abdallah ben Aicha 160
Abderrahman, ruler of Morocco 190
Abid al-Bukhari 158
Acre 202
Acton, Sir John 200
Aden, gulf of 219, 221
Admiralty, the 159
Adriatic Sea 65–7, 89, 98–9, 190, 196
Aegean Sea 34, 101, 124, 135, 138, 149, 151, 153, 206
Afghanistan 220
Africa 18, 20, 31, 39, 128, 178, 219
Ahmad al-Mansur 71, 81, 103, 106, 122, 129, 158
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qadi 122
Ahmed, governor of Constantine 214
Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan 96
Ahmed ben Abdallah 126
Ahmed el-Haddad 195
Ahmed Karamanli 184
Aicha 126
Aix-la-Chapelle, congress of 206
Alawite dynasty 111, 158
Alba, duke of 24
Albania 67, 99, 100, 112, 194
Alberoni, Cardinal 169–70
Albornoz, José Carrillo de, count of Montemar 171
Alcaudete, count of (I) 52
Alcaudete, count of (II) 56
Alcazarquivir 71, 84, 122
Aldersey, Lawrence 123
Alexandria 39, 58, 62, 66, 89, 99, 125, 207
Algarve 79
Algeria 20, 37, 71, 96, 157, 159, 204, 208, 209, 210, 212–15
Algiers (city & regency) 12, 16–18, 20, 23–8, 33, 36–41, 43, 46–7, 49, 51–2, 56, 58, 62–3, 66–7, 69, 71–3, 75–81, 83–5, 87–9, 91–108, 111–23, 129, 131–5, 137–159, 162, 165–82, 184, 190, 192–215, 218, 220, 221
Ali al-Mandari 103
Ali Bitchin 98–101, 117
Ali Zayde 85
Alicante 79, 93, 171
Allin, Sir Thomas 143–4
Almaden 127
Almohads 30
Almoravids 30
Alps, the 24
Alpujarras mountains 62
Alwin, Elizabeth 102
American independence, war of 176
Amsterdam 144
Anatolia 16, 34, 38, 47, 67, 94, 124, 184, 194, 211
Andalusia 25, 31, 62–3, 65, 83, 85, 105, 107, 109, 110
Anglo-Dutch wars 136, 143, 145
Annaba 29
Arab revolt (2011) 220
Arabia 28
Arabic 12, 29
Arabs 16, 84, 158, 194
Aragon 28–32, 36, 82–3
d’Aramon, Gabriel 49
Argentina (captive) 126
Arnaut Mami 112
Aruj see Barbarossa (I)
Asbjarnarson, Jon 77
Asilah 159
Atahualpa 42
Atlantic Ocean 18, 20, 31, 72, 75–6, 78–80, 86–7, 89, 91–2, 103, 105, 107–8, 115, 123, 140, 142, 158, 160, 167, 189, 193, 195, 219
Atlantic/African slave trade 18, 20, 188, 202
Augsburg, league of 152
Austria 18, 23, 94, 149, 150, 152, 156, 170, 190–93, 197, 204, 214
Aydin Reis 40
Azores 75, 86, 160
Bab al Mandab strait 219, 221
Baba Hassan 132–3
Baghdad 100
Bainbridge, William 165–9, 189, 200, 217
Baker, Francis 150
Baker, Thomas 150–51, 153–4
Bakri family 207
Bakri, Jacob 208
Balearic Islands 30, 39, 40, 43, 51, 144
Balkans, the 16, 38, 194
Baltimore (Ireland) 78, 106
Bandiera, Francesco 190
Barbarigo, Agostino 66
Barbarossa (I) (Aruj) 33–8, 40
Barbarossa (II) (Khizr) 23–4, 33–49, 51–2, 59–62, 64, 84, 114–15, 153, 176, 194
Barbary wars (of USA) 12–13, 165–9, 200–2, 217
Barcelo, Antonio 176
Barcelona 29, 50, 55, 79, 112, 170, 171
Barron, Samuel 200, 201
Bart, Jean 13, 154
Barton, Edward 80
Bastion of France 96–8, 100, 142, 177
Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan 29
Bazan, Alvaro de 56–7, 66, 68, 103
Beach, Richard 144
Beaufort, duc de see Vendôme, François de
Beaulieu-Persac 92, 96
Beirut 167
Beja 63
Bejaia 29
Berbers 14, 16, 27, 63, 84, 142–3, 157, 158
Besiktas 47
Bessastadir 76
Birgu 58–9
Biscay, bay of 160
Bishop, Richard 89
Bizerta 35–6, 64, 70, 179, 194
‘Black Hawk Down’ 221
Black Sea 14–15, 72, 153...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- MAPS
- Introduction: The Barbary Legend
- ONE: Vanguard of the Sultan, 1492–1580
- TWO: Lords of the Sea, 1580–1660
- THREE: Facing the Sea Powers, 1660–1720
- FOUR: Decline, Revival and Extinction, 1720–1830
- Conclusion: A New Barbary?
- GLOSSARY OF PLACE NAME CHANGES
- CHRONOLOGY
- REFERENCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX