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Britain versus France This was the period when nautical marauders variously called buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and pirates stalked the shipways and bays of the Caribbean.

His corsairs became the scourge of the sea, the indiscriminate attacks leading to a diplomatic blow-up with the new American government.

Today an obelisk in Ibiza’s port honours the daring Corsairs.

Turkish corsairs, notably the infamous Barbarossa, helped to conquer Algiers and Tunis.

But it’s the vivacious Moors and Christians fiesta, with its bare-bellied, flashing-eyed “slave-girls” and swashbuckling “corsairs,” that really makes the town unique.

I was carried at five years of age to Algiers with my mother, who had been taken by corsairs from the coast of Sicily.

During a hostile period of one hundred and thirty-eight years, the princes of Constantinople attacked these licentious corsairs with fruitless curses and ineffectual arms. [Footnote 79: The authors from whom I have learned the most of the ancient and modern state of Crete, are Belon, (Observations, &c., c. 3-20, Paris, 1555,) Tournefort, (Voyage du Levant, tom. i. lettre ii. et iii.,) and Meursius, (Creta, in his works, tom. iii. p. 343-544.) Although Crete is styled by Homer, by Dionysius, I cannot conceive that mountainous island to surpass, or even to equal, in fertility the greater part of Spain.] [Footnote 80: The most authentic and circumstantial intelligence is obtained from the four books of the Continuation of Theophanes, compiled by the pen or the command of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, with the Life of his father Basil, the Macedonian, (Scriptores post Theophanem, p. 1-162, a Francisc.

The Baltic was the first scene of their naval achievements they visited the eastern shores, the silent residence of Fennic and Sclavonic tribes, and the primitive Russians of the Lake Ladoga paid a tribute, the skins of white squirrels, to these strangers, whom they saluted with the title of Varangians [46] or Corsairs.

On that day the scale of war was turned against the Franks by the valor of the Saracens. [8] These corsairs had indeed been driven by the Byzantine fleets from the fortresses and coasts of Italy; but a sense of interest was more prevalent than superstition or resentment, and the caliph of Egypt had transported forty thousand Moslems to the aid of his Christian ally.

There were several Merchant-Ships [Page 123] within the Bar, that the Corsairs had taken from several Nations; one, we were inform'd was richly laden.

Their chief Riches consist in their Corsairs, who generally take all the Vessels of what Nation soever, tho' perhaps at Peace.

To prevent the depredations of these corsairs, and to awe and subdue the maritime robbers of every kind, Carausius was appointed commander of the Roman fleet, and was generally stationed at Boulogne: a station near enough the coast of England, to render him well acquainted with the ports, the shores, and the inhabitants of the island: he was a man of mean birth *, but of high ambition: he found himself at the head of a great fleet; and he was sufficiently wise to know the weight, power, and dignity of his office: he resolved therefore to extend the limits of his authority in such a manner, [Page 360] as to be the indisputable sovereign of the seas; and from thence, to stretch his influence over the land so effectually, as to be a nominal and acknowledged emperor of Rome: his methods in pursuance of his design were bold and profligate: he began by a breach of trust: he seized great numbers of prizes, and he took great numbers of prisoners; but he accounted to himself alone, not to his imperial masters, for the profits of his captors: he permitted Franks, Saxons, or any other pyrates to practice inciscriminately all kinds of violence upon the Gallic coasts; but in their return homewards, he intercepted their vessels, and applied to his own use the riches and plunder which those vessels contained.

Thus from a pyrate, he became at once a Caesar, and fulfilled the aphorism, wittily made by one of the Grecian corsairs to Alexander the Great, That a man with a single ship was a pyrate, but with a fleet was a great prince A triumverate of emperors was an unusual phenomenon: but the state of the continent was so very tottering and precarious, that neither Dioclesian nor Maximian were in any degree strong enough to dismantle the atchievements of Carausius. [Page 362] Some faint preparations of resistance were attempted by Maximian; but necessity compelled the Romans soon to withdraw all hostilities, and to enter into articles of peace: by which inglorious treaty, this proclaimed pyrate was declared Pius; this maritime robber was acknowledged Felix; and this avowed usurper, was sirnamed Augustus: as appears from the medal in Camden's Britannia, thus inscribed: IMP.

Other dangers, by sea and by land, from corsairs and banditti, including too the chances of war and of pestilence, were so great in that age, that it was not unusual for men when they set out upon their travels to put out a sum upon their own lives, which if they died upon the journey was to be the underwriter's gain, but to be repaid if they returned, within such increase as might cover their intervening expenses.

Know that I doat on Corsairs; and for that reason, sing it con spirito.” “Commands from Miss Ingram’s lips would put spirit into a mug of milk and water.” “Take care, then: if you don’t please me, I will shame you by showing how such things should be done.” “That is offering a premium on incapacity: I shall now endeavour to fail.” “Gardez-vous en bien! Even at the early period of his cruise against the Cavalier corsairs of Kinsale, such was Blake's popularity, that numbers of men were continually joining him from the enemy's fleet, although he offered them less pay, and none of that licence which they had enjoyed under Prince Rupert's flag.

There was a spot nearer home, the stronghold of a nest of pirates, who were to England such an annoyance as the corsairs of Algiers proved in later times to Southern Europe; and our monarch, provoked by their numerous and daring outrages, and carrying with him the enthusiastic concurrence of his people, resolved to dispossess them.

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