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The sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – the raiders included Dutchmen, Algerians, and Ottoman Turks. The attack was the largest by Barbary slave traders on Ireland. [1] [2]
Britain and Ireland were attacked by the Barbary Corsairs pirates both on sea and by raids on land. The Irish Sea was infamous for being frequented by Barbary pirates. Most British captives were sailors and crews of ships around the Mediterranean.
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
From 1500 onward, pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, Spain, France, England and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following Barbary pirate raids, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone ...
Baltimore was depopulated in 1631 in the Sack of Baltimore, a raid by Barbary pirates from either Ottoman Algeria or Salé . [17] Between 100 [18] and 237 people were abducted and sold into the Barbary slave trade, [19] of whom only two or three ever saw Ireland again. [17]
An increase in frigates and other warships allows the Royal Navy to strike against Royalist privateers in Ireland and Dunkirk as well as Barbary corsairs in North Africa. [ 3 ] A journal written by Dutch admiral Wybrant Schram is published describing his battle against the pirate fleet led by Captain Claes G. Compaen in 1626, one of his last ...
The town was depopulated in 1631 in the Sack of Baltimore, a raid by Barbary pirates from either Ottoman Algeria or Salé . [8] Between 100 [10] and 237 English settlers and local Irish people were abducted and sold into the Barbary slave trade, [11] of whom only two or three ever saw Ireland again. [8]
Barbary pirates (people) (11 P) R. Regency of Algiers (8 C, 12 P) S. Barbary slave trade (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Barbary piracy" The following 13 pages are in ...