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As there were no harbors or landing sites along the south coast, the three ships eventually came on 16 July to Vestmannaeyjar, a group of islands off the coast. [3] They raided the village and Heimaey for three days, capturing 234 people and killing 34, [ 3 ] including one of the ministers of the island. [ 3 ]
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681 Barbaria by Jan Janssonius, shows the coast of North Africa, an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria, c. 1650 An Algerine pirate ship A man from the Barbary states A Barbary pirate, Pier Francesco Mola, 1650
The Jiajing wokou raids caused extensive damage to the coast of China in the 16th century, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–67) in the Ming dynasty.The term "wokou" originally referred to Japanese pirates who crossed the sea and raided Korea and China; however, by the mid-Ming, the wokou consisted of multinational crewmen that included the Japanese and the Portuguese, but a ...
The most famous slave raid on the Faroe Islands was the slave raid of Suðuroy in the summer of 1629, in which thirty people were abducted to slavery, from which they never returned. [ 43 ] The Danish–Algerian War from 1769 to 1772 between Denmark–Norway and Deylik of Algiers took place partially because of the barbary piracy against Danish ...
The fictionalized capture and enslavement of Sir Fineen O'Driscoll's daughter Máire during the raid inspired Thomas Davis' poem, "The Sack of Baltimore". [21] The poem has the line: "And when to die a death of fire that noble maid they bore, She only smiled, O'Driscoll's child; she thought of Baltimore."
The Gaza Strip is a narrow sliver of land on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Israel and Egypt. At just less than 140 square miles, it is about the same size as Philadelphia , with ...
1733–1743 - The Great Northern Expedition to explore the Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean (Khariton Laptev, Semyon Cheyuskin): the deserted Taimyr was explored, the mountains of Byrranga and Cape Chelyuskin (The Northern tip of Siberia) were discovered; 1740 - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was founded
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