'Barbary Pirates,' a 1681 painting by William van de Velde the ... "Death would be a great relief and more welcome than the continuance of our present situation," one of the prisoners lamented.

When Barbary pirates terrorized Europe. By Avedis Hadjian . ... about 1 million European prisoners changed hands between the 16th and 18th centuries in North African slave markets, ...

In 1801, pirates across the coast of Tripoli continued to seize American ships and use force to take Americans hostage. “Jefferson learned of how brutally Western prisoners were being held.

Although history remembers them as outlaws, the Barbary pirates were in fact autonomous regions — Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis — within the Ottoman Empire, joined by an independent nation, Morocco.

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The Houthis are today’s Barbary Pirates. The Houthis only differ from their predecessors in that they have not yet attempted to seize American captives for ransom.

In the early 19th century, the United States Navy and Marines played a small but significant part in the demise of the Barbary corsairs, the pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean from their ...

The wreck is the first time the remains of a pirate corsair have been found in the region known as the Barbary Coast.

Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that of its allies and friends. Opinion - The Houthis are the new Barbary ...