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Ships driven by oars gave the corsairs of the sixteenth century a reach that threatened both merchant vessels and coastal towns. E. Hamilton Currey traces their rise around the Mediterranean, linking the displacement of people from southern Spain with the growth of piracy along the shores of North Africa. Uruj and Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa, Dragut and their rivals appear in an account concerned with leadership, naval power and changing fortunes at sea.
The contents carry the history through Tunis, Prevesa, Malta and Lepanto, with a chapter devoted to the galley and other vessels. In the excerpt on Prevesa, Barbarossa considers weather, dwindling provisions and the burden on crews while fellow commanders urge him to engage Andrea Doria. Such details give readers interested in maritime history a view of the practical pressures behind fleet movements, alongside Currey's account of the wider contest between competing powers.
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- Author
- E. Hamilton Currey
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Military History
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