Barbary Corsairs: The Most Feared Pirates in the Mediterranean Sea

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The Barbary corsairs were some of the most feared pirates in history. From their bases in North Africa, they terrorized seafarers and inhabitants of the Mediterranean coast. They robbed valuable goods and abducted thousands of people to sell into slavery. The Barbary corsairs sailed as far as Newfoundland, Canada; played a crucial role in naval battles, such as the Battle of Lepanto in 1571; and fought alongside the Ottomans in amphibious operations such as the siege of Malta. Let’s get to know these dreaded sailors, delve into the intricacies of their daily operations, and explore how they became a formidable naval power.
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[@SandRhomanHistory]

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[@ViktorCZ42]

Great video, tysm. Will u make some staggering siege in near future, please?

[@whyismyricewet1986]

What happened to 30 years war video

[@zombieat]

@@vardekpetrovic9716 the numidians were light cavalry horsemen not camel riders.

[@TheBullethead]

Sadly, you didn't mention the presence of Barbary Corsairs in Louisiana. The famous pirate Jean Laffite's crew was largely of North African extraction. Thus, there are now many toponyms in and around New Orleans with North African flavor, including a town named Algiers. These pirates also fought on the US side in the Battle of New Orleans during (and, because of the slow speed of communications in the day, after) the War of 1812.

[@jpelvis8915]

In spanish we have a say "no hay moros en la costa", which could be translated to "no moors at the coast", meaning we can proceed with a given situation, since there is nobody that could pose a threat around. It comes from the centuries where the mediterranean spanish coast was attacked by barbary pirates (the moors). Nowadays it has been labelled as offensive, but that's another story.

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

Bullshit, I will keep saying "no hay moros en la costa" as well as "que le den morcilla" this is the land of Don Pelayo never forget that brother.

[@VrouwenbesnijderHabashi]

Spaniards call literally every kind of Muslim moro even those in the phillipines

[@juniorjames7076]

Lol! What an impact Arabs/North Africans had on Spanish culture! There are Christian Latinos with Arabic names like Omar, Fatima, and Zahra/Zara and they don't even realize it.

[@user-rj5db6nt4i]

I as a modern Moro....take no offense....I'd rather be hated and feared ...than liked and submitted....'' no Hay Moros en la costa ''' better for the coming generations to keep that in mind.....our kids might Come back ....and not as tomato pickers...... Please take no offense.....but the World IS changing.

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

​@@user-rj5db6nt4i haha good luck with that buddy

[@Smonserratm]

The "depopulation" of the coast was widespread in Mallorca. Many of their "coastal" towns were actually a few km inland and the harbour was almost a separate entity. That's why nowadays you see places like Sóller, Alcúdia, Andratx... separated into Sóller and Port de Sóller, Alcúdia and Port d'Alcúdia, etcetera.

[@ridalger16]

Interesting. Thank you for your input

[@juniorjames7076]

Fascinating! This era had a deep impact. So much literature, songs, children stories, poems, and artwork/paintings inspired by from this age.

[@svenskenh644]

You forgot to mention that USA had an ally in the war against the corsairs: Sweden! It was a combined fleet that defeated them.

[@allws9683]

'just forget about them' ... US first. 😜

[@SpartanJoe193]

Aight, this is some Crusader Kings shit.

[@user-rj5db6nt4i]

Seriously they defeated the Americans first and then you defeated them.

[@emmiannon1266]

My favourite note about the Europeans dealings with the Corsairs was that the big nations (especially the british) wanted to pay their protection money and keep them active because it meant that the smaller nations who couldnt afford it would be forced out of their own trade.

[@johnhenry4844]

That’s pretty smart tbh

[@eduardssilins585]

Where could i read more about it?

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

​@@eduardssilins585 You cannot bc it is false.The british simply did not had the man power to deal with the pirates.

[@cracksmoker1506]

​@@georgecristiancripcia4819they did, we even have deeds written in museums in algiers of the British paying algiers corsairs to specifically target Spanish ships for them

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

@@cracksmoker1506 That was during a war.France also did it,spanish did it,but only in war.Or as a preparation to war.

[@sodog44]

"To the shores of Tripoli"

[@benitoharrycollmann132]

To grasp the extent of the audacity of these pirates, one can read "The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson." Which tells a story of a Barbary raid on Iceland in 1627, in which many Icelanders were captured with the express intent of selling them into slavery.

[@dogwhistle8836]

Did he mention that they were diverse and did not bring religion into it?

[@sirwolfnsuch]

@@dogwhistle8836 This raid was under command of a Dutchman, Jan Janszoon, so no mention needed

[@dogwhistle8836]

@@sirwolfnsuch who had to convert to the religion of peace and love to spread the good word but once it was a diverse attack is all that matters in modern history, the sickness of putting modern identity politics phrases into historical videos is turning ordinary people off and into the arms of Europe's new right wing parties, as someone who has never vote for any right party in 20 years of voting will be voting for 1 of the new parties and so will my family and friends, ordinary people are sick of being called all kinds of names just for asking common sense questions

[@ridalger16]

@@dogwhistle8836 let me guess, if he replies to you with facts you're still gonna find a way to spin this into islam hate or race hate. -99 IQ 💀

[@bozomori2287]

​@@dogwhistle8836 Pirates are bad people but they defeneded muslims from the spanish crown and christian kings paid to attack their christian rivals. Pirates are a force of nature : The sea

[@theawesomeman9821]

Cool fact, according to the US Navy's founding charter the purpose of the US Navy was to combat North African pirates.

[@FlashPointHx]

Awesome video - People always think of the Caribbean when you imagine Pirates - but these guys had it down to a science. Loving this time period and how you brought it to life!

[@nodruj8681]

Then they got colonised lol

[@cracksmoker1506]

Loved your channel for ages. Hope you do an indepth summary of this period in the future ❤

[@FlashPointHx]

@@cracksmoker1506 I’m in the middle of the Portuguese take over of the Indian Ocean - equally fascinating :)

[@cracksmoker1506]

@@FlashPointHx I'm watching the videos, beautifully done as usual, your andalusian period videos are my favourite on KZbin

[@sreardonatpfg]

People seem to forget the Islamic slave trade when they talk about slavery today. My girlfriend is Tunisian, and her family has A noble Pedegree. They still on their ancestral home. A fairly sizable castle not far from the coast, and in the basement of this castle is cages; large ones.

[@nvelsen1975]

If you've got a strong stomach (no really, even as a combat veteran that's not something I watch lightly) you could watch 'Africa Blood and Guts', a documentary 'released as filmed' with nothing left out. The Italian film crew was in Zanzibar when Arab (slaver) rule was being overthrown. The results were pretty gruesome. There was a LOT of hate against the former masters you can tell. Similarly themed is the book 'The fall of the Congo Arabs' which is available as pdf online. Written by a British officer during the Congo Arab War (which was mainly about slavery) he describes how the slavery happened along religion and ethnic lines, facing mainly Arab and half-Arab fighters with most fully black tribes on their side. And that's the Congo Basin in the 19th century....

[@cracksmoker1506]

Can we also starting calling the western slave trade as "Christian" since you seem to like to merge religion and crimes together

[@sreardonatpfg]

@@cracksmoker1506 Who owned the slave ships in the Atlantic slave trade?

[@cracksmoker1506]

@@sreardonatpfg Christians and Jews, judeochristian slave trade it is then

[@Whatsthedealsquirter]

Think they were owned by Jewish people ,I read it but can't source it​@@sreardonatpfg

[@angelikalindenau943]

They also raided Baltimore on the Southwestern Irish coast. There's a brilliant book on the history, The Stolen Village

[@liberatumtaiwanae3580]

Love from Taiwan. I never fully understood USA starting wars in S America and N.Africa back then, so this nice little intro helps me grasp the economic reality of the Napoleonic Era. My ancestors were gentry families who also dealt trade routes, and they suffered many losses due to piracy along Taiwan's coast. One thing in this great vid I hope could be improved, around 11m5s Letter of Marque was mentioned. If you introduced new terminology perhaps best to flash a line or two defining it according to its use of the time period in your narrative. Viewers not familiar with this era might be confused by a new term introduced out of no where.

[@lolasdm6959]

商盗同行，你以为郑成功是什么？

Good video, it's an interesting topic that I've been waiting for since you talked about the Battle of Lepanto a couple of years ago. This video opens the possibility of new topics for future videos, for example: the system of conquests and establishment of Portuguese and Spanish African settlements in North Africa; the little-known Corsairs of Dunkirk; and Japanese and Chinese Piracy from the 16th to the 17th century. On the other hand, there are a series of errors in the video that are worth clarifying: _ There are several mistakes in the maps you use since Charles V is mentioned, for example at that time the Kingdom of Navarra no longer existed (it was conquered by Ferdinand the Catholic and then the French annexed the part that was on their side), the kingdom of Naples is mistakenly shown as a separate territory (since 1503 it has been part of Spain), the Holy Roman Empire did not have control over Northern Italy at that time (the Italian states had Imperial dignity, but they were independent entities like Savoy, Florence, Este, Mantua, etc.); Milan, the Netherlands and Franche-Comté were also part of Spain; Scotland's border extends further south than it should, not all the Greek islands were under Ottoman control, among others that I will not mention. _ The reason why Spain and Portugal expanded into North Africa was actually a measure to limit piracy (something you don't mention in putting the territories under their control on the map). _ The Spanish Naval Hegemony did not end in 1588, the fleet was quickly rebuilt (which is why there were several attempts at armadas until a peace was signed, which maintained good relations between the two kingdoms in the first decades of the 17th century) and supremacy It was not completely lost until the defeat against the Dutch in the 80 Years' War (the British did not dispute it until after their Civil War).

[@VrouwenbesnijderHabashi]

That is not true. Spanish and Portuguese scum started attacking north African coastal cities even before Granada fell in 1492 and even before piracy became a thing. The Ottoman naval operations in the Maghreb were a result of the pleas of local Muslims to the powerful sultan.

[@dzpower9156]

As I am from Algeria which was the central base of the Barbary corsairs, we need to know this was a response to Castilian aggression and an economic war response to Europeans who didn't want to make commerce trade with us, and it was the response to their economic war is, the pirates were not just North African, the Greek, British, Sicilian, Dutch they were doing the same thing in this time, and this is what Viking from north Europe they have due to European and al andalus, And by the way, a lot of corsairs were European renegades who converted to Islam or North African Berber, not Turkish North Africa has an alliance with the Ottoman Empire

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied: It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. That being said, i have read the Quran myself and these people just followed their base desires and slapped some religious paint on it, it does not make these people better though. The Barbary Coasts constant raiding, that went even as far as Iceland to gather slaves to sell to the turks, also surely played a role in France wanting to colonize them and going for them since they established themselves as a boogeyman.

[@dzpower9156]

Debating with you about religion, I am not interested in that, you believe in what you want about the Koran and Islam. We can say the same thing about the Crusaders who killed civilians and innocent Muslims [massacre of Jerusalem 1099] and the Christian Orthodox [Sack of Constantinople 1209] and perhaps some heretic Catholics too [Albigensian Crusade] on the name of god if we read history we find that people or states use religion or belief for their own interest most of the time, and it's not different today but with other ideologies [communism, democracy, human rights.....] @@DontKnow-hr5my

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

@@dzpower9156Don't misunderstand me, what i was saying is the Quran has little to do with it, they just twisted it to follow their base desires to justify their kidnapping, raiding and pillaging. "That being said, i have read the Quran myself and these people just followed their base desires and slapped some religious paint on it" i did NOT mean by that, that "these people" are the followers of the Quran, what i meant by "these people" were people that encouraged all that, the actual pirates and their enablers such as Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja) with his statement.

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

The greeks were just mulatto slaves to the ottoturkmen at the time- just a lesser rung on their payroll, much like your ancestors were- but at least your people were independent and the ring leaders of the ottocuck's piracy-led navy.

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

I wouldn’t call it a response that’s just what everyone did in the past. We shouldn’t look at it through a modern lens. We should just know now that there is no justification for any off it.

[@joanllinasbas1231]

Spain only trully lost its naval power status after the 1800s,after the Napoleonic Wars. After the Spanish armada of 1588 came the equally disastrous English armada, and the war ended in a costly draw between both countries

[@riograndedosulball248]

If anything it was even costlier for the English, as they lost a fleet in Lisbon and another one in Panama

[@WissHH-]

Ohhh yess! A sunday beer and a SandRhoman video! Life is good

[@jonathantrego]

Another excellent video! Great work!

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

US even in 1800:Dont touch my boats. Japan:Don't touch their boats,believe me.

[@Dayvit78]

You think you're so great because you have boats!

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Japanese pirates are very ferocius Samuráis Ronin atacked Phillipines and fight agaisnt Spanish troos in Cagayan Batle in 1.582 and win Spain

[@THECHEESELORD69]

@@Dayvit78we do have boats! We also can create a sun! I mean what else is there to say?

[@carltonbauheimer]

Empires of the Sea is a great book.

[@ExperiencePlayers]

As always, excited to see the video!

[@bigsarge2085]

Another incredible history documentary, thank you!

[@Analblaster-jw1pi]

Огромное спасибо за Ваш труд. Это самое лучшее видео.Количество подписок на канал несправедливо низко.

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Make a mini series on Mughal conquests and Maratha conquests please!!

[@2tiddies404]

someone played empire total war lol

[@manonanisland88]

Yet another amazing video!

[@paronzoda]

Great video

[@samright4661]

When the Pirates pissed off Jefferson it was over

[@Whatsthedealsquirter]

There lucky they didn't last for Andrew Jackson ,that man was a killing machine

[@lerneanlion]

I have a question: Why the Western Phoenicians of Carthage did not do what these Barbary corsairs did or employ privateers to protect themselves from the Romans?

[@collectionenjoyer1907]

There was piracy in the anchient world. Caesar even has a famous anecdote with such an encounter.

[@lerneanlion]

@@Casmaniac I did but the problem is that these pirates are not even highlighted like at all. And yes, I know that pirates existed ever since like the ancient times.

[@lolasdm6959]

They probably did, might not be recorded. After the collapse of Carthage, and the Mecadonian Successors, the sea lanes were basically unpatrolled by the Romans. Then the Cillian pirates began to organized and burnt the Roman fleet once. Mithridates VI of Pontus paid them to help so yes there were recorded privateer action. Also quite funny because Mithridate's plundering of Anatolia might have led to strengthening of the pirates.

[@bozomori2287]

​@@lolasdm6959 wow

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Carthage was extreme dependent on maritime trade, and used its navy to stamp out piracy in its waters of interest. I doubt there were very many pirates eager to work for them.

[@oversipelio983]

great video

[@roberts_nl]

Wasn't expecting a Newfoundland shout out in this one!

[@Fouzi707]

in Algeria taifa al rais and the Janissaries were fighting over the control of the country in the end one of the taifa eliminated too many of them and this weakened the Sultan control over the country

[@wiktorberski9272]

You have mentioned the Siege of Malta. As far as I remember, the siege was organized, because the Knight Order located in Malta (former Hospitaliers) robbed some goods belonging to Sultan. So Sovereign Military Order of Malta was also involved in corsair/pirates actions

[@sultan_meiji]

If I remember correctly Knights of Rhodes were also involved in Mediterranean piracy. The father of famous Barbarossa brothers were captured by them

[@oday215]

They stole a gallon belonging to the Ottoman vizier. The sultan was old and was convinced by the vizier that capturing Malta would protect pilgrims to Mecca. While they failed to capture Malta, they did sink the galleon that was at the port

[@joeshmoe8345]

Great, thanks

[@chrisyoung1576]

pretty troublesome in empire total war

[@lucho9911]

And thus started the Era of “For the love of God, DO NOT TOUCH AMERICAN BOATS” 😂

[@1crazyplayer430]

unless you're the houthis i guess

[@StNemo]

Totally worth it to get to say 'I too have something of a navy myself'

[@daveweiss5647]

"TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI!!!"

[@uelibinde]

interesting, they were kind of the jack of all traits for the ottomans. they did all their business but they didn't have to rule the territories either. really smart.

[@Hell_O7]

I'm currently skimming this, but is there not much about the combat? I've watched and read about Lepanto before, but haven't seen much about what they do in smaller scale conflicts (they don't bring huge navy for every raids, do they?l It's just that ramming seems pretty risky for me, since it seems easy to break their ship in the process.

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Do the Katipunan next! They're barely told!

[@SpartanJoe193]

The guy specializes in remodern history so I would prefer if he sitcks to his lane and covers pre-colonial Philippines.

[@Yorgar]

And you hear about the Barbary Wars everytime the crayon eaters sing.

[@Grissbane]

and then, one day, they messed with America's boats

[@thebigflop3118]

🦅 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[@nvelsen1975]

Which at the time was quite safe, and the Americans begged the British to please fix it for them. After much laughter in London about that proposition, the US navy was effectively (re-)founded to deal with the problem.

[@cracksmoker1506]

And then the Americans left and we continued enslaving

[@gloverfox9135]

@@cracksmoker1506until the French took care of that

[@officerbanjo4916]

I think it's funny in these maps that Scotland owns Northumbria

[@johnhenry4844]

Border changed quite a lot back then

[@_DarkEmperor]

Added to my playlist about Barbary Piracy and Barbary Slave Trade.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Too bad we don't have a game about the Barbary Pirates much like Cid Meier's Pirates game. I bet it would be fun n informative.

[@yemirz]

Fr

[@brick8152]

A lot of folks forget all about the Islamic slave trade in the slavery debate

[@Wright1331]

I think they understand it, but it doesn't help any current narrative so they choose to ignore it

[@misterperson3469]

Slavery debate? I think you arent going to find very many people debating in favor of slavery

[@luccadedonder9184]

no but arabs like to claim that there peace loving cave people who never hurt a fly and always get buluid and coloniolist . whilst in history it was always muslim agression into europe and the massive slave empire of the turks

[@alexeysaphonov232]

​@@misterperson3469I believe that the point here is that slavey and all its odds should not be narrowed down to white christians.

[@MuhammadUsman-mi4jk]

It’s not really a relevant discussion in the Americas and Western Europe. The Atlantic slave trade has a much greater impact in those places and because it was a uniquely brutal slave trade with great consequences to this day, it’ll be the most discussed. It’s kind of like how most ppl only really talk abt the Holocaust when it comes to genocides

[@whyismyricewet1986]

what happened to 30 years war videos?

[@AironSmieciowy-di3qy]

Great video!

[@liamle9315]

Brilliant watch just a shame about the BOT comments as usual

[@ridalger16]

Yep. Bots are going crazy lol

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

Such as?

[@alexdetrojan4534]

You're right, the lefty woke bots are annoying...

[@jakemocci3953]

Who were the slave traders and why were the markets closed on Saturdays?

[@captainsalty2273]

🤔🤔🤔

[@league_confederate_anton]

People are asking important questions now.

[@sebastianbringas3520]

Who!!!

[@marschma]

maybe you should ask who rowed the galleys of the european powers. The spanish were notorious for their galley slaves, only venice using indebted citizens rather than slaves. Stop tainting history with racist and incorrect suggestions.

[@jakemocci3953]

@@marschma Are you denying that your people were preeminent slave traders throughout your entire history, while today, you solely blame whites?

[@RosierJulio]

Un video sobre el emirato de creta,

[@thewidow7864]

In Spaish, the "u" in the "qu" is always silent

[@2SSSR2]

Imagine, doing great for yourself. And then deciding to attack USA because they would make interesting target. Boy did they stepped on the eagles claw.

[@benjaminloyd6056]

They couldn't afford to make exceptions, or the other nations would begin wondering why they had to pay tribute and the Americans didn't.

[@ayzac6277]

Well Turks are the one who made US to pay tribute to Turks & Captured 12 US sailboats also captured about 1.000 American navy crews & enslaved them & Ottoman/Turkish corsairs 🇹🇷 🏴‍☠️ kept attacking fighting with US people leading by Turkish leaders of Tripoli and Algiers

[@ayzac6277]

& Also Russia 🇷🇺 lost Alaska because they suffered during the Crimean war against Turks 🇹🇷 that’s why they had to sell it to USA 🇺🇸 because Turks did lot of damages to the Russian empire… so sad not really 🇹🇷 🥇 & 🇷🇺 🥈

[@ntfoperative9432]

They fucked with Americas boats

[@THECHEESELORD69]

@@ayzac6277Russian lost again the coalition, not just the ottomans,

[@nicolaenicolae3289]

Are you certain that Transylvania is where you put it on the map? :)))

[@Adam-xi7xq]

Are there any good novels on early modern/renaissance warfare?

[@nevisysbryd7450]

Alitriste, and I think Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy are set in Early Modern Spain and Poland-Lithuania, respectively.

[@5thMilitia]

Sea Beggars, by Cecelia Holland

[@sneakysimian]

Great vid! I would love to see one of the other pirate mercs - the Boucaniers, Flibustiers & Buccaneers of the Caribbean. The Sack of Panama, lead by Henry Morgan is a great raid - Buccaneer armies, cattle stampedes and jungle expeditions (even a mock-siege before hand)!

[@schlieffenman957]

The fact that the Barbary pirates were around for some of the most important events in the early modern era and that they were in contact with so many different countries around not just the Mediterranean but the entire Atlantic is what makes them so interesting to me. I visited Iceland last December and there were stories and fear of them even there (and that's why it was legal to kill Turks there for a long time). They remind me of the Vikings in that they were just there, doing their thing, raiding and profiting, and yet they left a lasting influence far and wide. I think it's also such a strange turn of fate that the Barbary pirates were so ramdomly powerful that Europe just had to put up with them and it was only by the direct military efforts of the US and Sweden of all countries that they were put down. Really random.

[@juniorjames7076]

My take away is these were basically the first international corporations. These were corporate backed/funded activities with investors in both Europe (Amsterdam, Genoa), North Africa (Sale, Algiers) and Middle East (Istanbul). It was a racket everyone took part in and only died when the economic landscape changed with the industrial revolution. I bet many of the today's international corporations are the descendants of holding companies who went "legitimate" after they made their fortune in piracy/slavery.

[@alexandrub8786]

1:19 Transylvania?

[@chungusdisciple9917]

Here to boost the Al Gore rhythm. Hell yeah brother!

[@janpitman4048]

SandRhoman - excellent video - shame about some of your viewers.

[@dogwhistle8836]

Why are you against "diverse" viewers, are you 1 of those far right bigoted racists the media tells me about every 5 seconds?

[@discountplaguedoctor88]

​@@dogwhistle8836 Do you have literally nothing better to do than be a broken record? Because you just ensured that we both look like idiots.

[@dogwhistle8836]

@@discountplaguedoctor88 stop being anti diverse because if you live in the UK could be guilty of non crime hate crime for your transphobic statements

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

Jesus Christ, what is this comment section?

[@dogwhistle8836]

This comment section is "diverse " and only a racist bigot would question why making everything "diverse" is not good, only a white supreme asks common sense questions

[@MisterFoxton]

Was just thinking the same thing. Clearly this was shared on some shit hole Nazi website.

[@_caracalla_]

truly, comment section is full of idiots trying to justify slavery if the slave is from another religion, or sympathetic with slavers because they do it for "revenge". It's just brainless right wingers from different cultures and religions around the world.

[@nodruj8681]

How dare whites question historical narratives levied against them and think for themselves waaah waaah@@MisterFoxton

[@patrickdunning6886]

@@MisterFoxtonGo cry more commie.

[@patrickconnerney7397]

Most most

[@milkmonster2310]

Well researched, unbiased and informative video. Great work all around man.

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

,When Francois I of France let Barary Corsairs occupy Marsailles in the 16th century, against the Turks, Francois sneered against his critics, "When wolves threatened my people, surely I can acall on the servce of jackals against them!!?" Cynical or what??!!

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

France was called the firstborn of the church although thru history I don't know of a people more traitorous to the Catholic faith. They allow to harbour the main Barbary and Turkish fleet in Marseille while their cargo holds were full of enslaved christians from Spain and Italy and this was before the wars of religion...

[@M-J-qn8td]

@@egillskallagrimson5879 Don't worry, MAcron is a a way worst traitor to France than Francis 1 has ever been to catholicism.

[@juniorjames7076]

@egillskallagrimson5879 The Catholic Church has been traitorous to the Christian faith. Jesuit and Dominican universities (Georgetown, Boston College) sold slaves and had insurance policies for slaves in the 1800s! You don't anything about real dark history of this "Church".

[@Kruppt808]

Sea Wolves of the Med by E. Hamilton Currey The Barbary Corsairs by Jacques Heers The Sultan's Admiral by Ernle Bradford been collecting books on this topic for years, i have others that have these subjects in them but these are the only ones i could find for a reasonable price so far that are primarily about them.

[@erhanozaydin853]

Turkish historian Emre Sefa Gürkan has a good book about it (SULTANIN KORSANLARI - OSMANLI AKDENİZİ'NDE GAZA,YAĞMA VE ESARET 1500-1700, Sultan's Corsairs - Holy Way, Plunder and Slavery in Ottoman Mediterrenean). Probably there is not an English version, but K&G's below documentary is probably based on primariliy that book. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5vKppisiKl8q7ssi=LiReAyf22OWxb426 .

[@alexdetrojan4534]

Thank you.

[@muhammadabdullahy9281]

Why front image got changed?

[@KiljiArslan]

Just a small thing shouldn’t Barbo Oruc have a red beard?

[@discountplaguedoctor88]

He got the nickname after dying his beard that color.

[@wassimouch1390]

If don't come to Algeria Algeria come to you 🇩🇿☪️

[@gengiskhandziri]

Rana 2-1 doka

[@levanbitadze5272]

🇨🇵

[@wassimouch1390]

@@levanbitadze5272 franch was slave in Algeria 😘

[@abdelmalekmetidji]

Hell yeah brother 🇩🇿

[@fairoboilawrence5287]

rpsits come to you lol yep that sums up islam very well ☪️

[@PaulJohn01]

Barbary Pirates ! PC has arrived on this channel i see.

[@badfoody]

Clown

Reis is pronounced like "raghees" not "rice"

[@dutchuncle2716]

With gh as in ghost?

@@dutchuncle2716 Not like that, but like é sound.

[@juniorjames7076]

Kolay gelsin from NYC, Agbey!

[@Kilundrum]

Still a touchy subject.

[@pepperspray7386]

why did you picture Barbarossa with a black beard?

[@wiseSYW]

the redbeard one is the german emperor, not the turkish pirate

[@pepperspray7386]

@@wiseSYW the name literally means red beard.

[@wiseSYW]

@@pepperspray7386 it's a misheard word from baba oruc -> babarush -> barbarossa he don't have red beard.

[@0giwan]

​@@wiseSYWOk, I thought the same thing, and your explanation makes perfect sense. Would have been nice to have that in the video.

[@shergy1000]

@@wiseSYW Wasn't it the Lombards of northern Italy who nicknamed the Germanic Emperor Frederick Hohenstaufen [Barbarossa] due to his red beard? He is mentioned many times during and after his lifetime for his fine red beard.

[@Tupadre97]

And apparently they're still Europe's nightmare looking at the comments 😂

[@islammehmeov2334]

Just look Somalia and Yemen 😊

[@ygdmdx]

thirty years war when will realse

[@JpGunsNRoses]

Whats the difference between Privateers and Corsairs?

[@crazyviking24]

Whether they attacked everyone or just your enemies. That is literally the only difference.

[@NicholasGreenlee]

Another great history channel that focuses on piracy is "Gold and Gunpowder". His most recent video on the Golden Age of Piracy has a great explanation of the different names for pirates and the like, and what made piracy "legal" vs not.

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

Both are sea mercenaries with links to piracy but I think a proper differentiation would be corsairs are state sponsor pirates and privateers are a more grey definition, usually will have baking from some financial groups but they weren't as endorse as corsairs, although the terms are pretty much interchangeable

[@crazyviking24]

@@egillskallagrimson5879 Correct but reverse those two. Privateers are the ones with government sponsorship.

[@bretalvarez3097]

Privateers had a fancy piece of paper that gave them "rights" to be a pirate as long as they don't raid the nation they are serving. Pirates do what they want.

[@blakebailey22]

As a fan of the channel, I would appreciate it if you didn't use AI generated art. Great video!

[@alexdetrojan4534]

The AI art is nice.

[@fillfinish7302]

Some of these pirates were Moriscos expelled from iberia .

[@Spartan_Disiplin]

There were no Andalusian or native North African pirates in Ottoman Algeria. Almost all of the pirates in Algeria consisted by Turks and Christian converts(lesser extent). They established a strict caste system to exclude the local population and Spain Muslims from corsair.

[@VrouwenbesnijderHabashi]

@@Spartan_Disiplin who told you that ? There are many native rias a famous example is the great Rais Hamidou.

[@-Blast]

@@Spartan_DisiplinSource: Trust me bro.

[@yemirz]

@@Spartan_Disiplinmost were natives North Africans, almost none were Turks from the ottomans.

[@Threezi04]

@@Spartan_Disiplin Source: Turkish nationalist "historians"

[@xmaniac99]

Doria was Genuese, just like Columbus and not Spanish. He worked for Spain though.

[@philippschwartzerdt3431]

He may have been Genoese, but that was part of the Roman Holy Empire and he was still a “Spanish” admiral, though of Genoese decent, same as Columbus was a Spanish captain, as the important part was the flag he was sailing under.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Andrea Doria born.in a city of Milán Duchy in 1.466 ; the 16 century to 18 begining Milán Duchy is a territory of Spanish Empíre isbtrue born Andrea in this exactly time no ruled Spain but after yes in Life of Andrea Doria in Spanish Empíre time no in other European countries the person born in Spanish territory is considered Spaniard of fact acord the laws in this time for this reason the Viceroyalties in América named " Las Españas/The Spains" regards.

[@evershumor1302]

Anno 1404 vibe

[@AA-dn8dj]

12:10 uhhhh NO, they 'didn't quarrel' because they were all slaves. Press ganging non-Ottomans and Christian Europeans was standard practice. It was not harmonious, only brutal. Both lead to efficiency, but one leads to mass deaths and sufferring, which the Ottomans were guilty of. Everything built on the Barbary Coast during this period was built on the backs of slaves and the sweat, blood, and tears of European Christian slaves.

[@ayzac6277]

Well Despite The Barbary Corsairs Real Ethnic Backgrounds They Were All Nominally Turkish Corsairs & Believe It Or Not That’s A Fact. 🇹🇷 ✌️

[@abcdefg91111]

self reflection isn't a thing in Europe i guess. This comment like many prove it

[@maddogbasil]

*Little known slave trade is the slavic trade which was a brutal trade heavily taken part by western Europeans and mongol tartars* *Its why we still see such a religious and cultural difference between eastern and western europe*

[@THECHEESELORD69]

People tend to forget that like everyone did slavery. It was the most efficient form of labor at the time.

[@andromedarising5764]

An important episode in history and often, i would say in some cases, deliberately overlooked. A wider knowledge of this would upset certain dominant narratives currently plaguing the west.

[@houseplant1016]

That western people don't know their own history?

[@andromedarising5764]

​@@houseplant1016 im referring to those who are pursuing a particular political ideology that requires them to ignore any history or information that is inconvenient to their narrative. If for example you wanted to create a false propagandist worldview of oppression/slavery/colonialism whereby you pin only one ethnicity or culture with guilt and blame them for all or most of the worlds problems you would ignore information such as the above. It used to be called racism but I think they call it activism now.

[@collectionenjoyer1907]

​@@andromedarising5764 Who are these mythic people who blame all slavery on white people. Would it be african americans mabye? African american activists that still feel like they are being discriminated against today? Might they have some particular reason to focus on slavery comitted by whites? Hmmm i cannot seem to figure it out. Such a mystery. I guess whites are just poor unfortunate bullying victims.

[@lolasdm6959]

Bro's brain is mush apperently, the video actively talked about Western privateers, just because your ancestors lost to Muslims in piracy, doesn't mean you should keep seething after centuries.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@collectionenjoyer1907 African Americans aren't being discriminated? Particular focus on slavery commited by whites? Because the black slaves were inslaved by whites in America. You expect African Americans to be angry about Arabs when they weren't being enslaved by them? It's like saying why are Indians so angry about the British colonizing them and not angry about Russian colonization of Siberia. Like bro where is your brain?

[@paul1780]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Excellent ambassadors for the "Religion of peace". Though the Catholics didn't behave very differently, especially in America.

[@eingrobernerzustand3741]

Thats implying that the protestants weren't even worse.

[@fairoboilawrence5287]

Catholicism is not Christianity Both Catholic and protestant were cancers to Christianity. The real Christians were the Orthodox Christians who were slaves under the Ottoman Turks at the time or in Russia

[@t4fseer935]

I don't think you understand what that means, then again

[@riograndedosulball248]

​@@fairoboilawrence5287the "real Christians" remained slaves for 500 years because they couldn't cooperate between themselves to save their lives. As if the oriental schism didn't happen exclusively because the Byzantine emperors threw a hissy fit over not being allowed to arbitrarily rule everybody else

[@charlie11ng42]

@@fairoboilawrence5287 Nope the true/correct Christens are the Catholics. Our doctrine is unassailable.

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

The moriscos expulsion wasn't just because they were forcefully converse and then expelled nonetheless... they were offered to convert or to be deported to north africa, many just go and the ones who stayed most of them did not convert in reality like the cryptojews the moriscos still were muslims and even three generations later still pray looking to Mecca. In the context of the Ottoman wars to have a large population of muslims that could side with the Turk was too dangerous and eventually the moriscos just proof to be disloyal to the crown as they rise in revolt and started massacres in spanish cities and towns. Emperor Carlos had to call the tercios from Flandes to crush the revolt. Moriscos were given lots of chances to integrate not only they refuse but they sided with the enemies of Spain and turn against their own neighbours so, yes they were crushed and then expelled. Which is kinder than what the turks did to many christians in their territories as moriscos weren't enslave, castrated or some other gruesome fate.

[@TheAnonymousKnightOfJustice]

I was about to give a longer explanation about how Spanish downfall was because it's too religious and INTOLERANT 😂(HATEFUL NEIGHBOURS (BRITISH & DUTCH AND VERY DETERMINED AND STRONG RESISTANCE FROM ASIAN NATIONS) while Turkish downfall was because it's too diverse to centralize and they under estimated the impact of European bases in asia,sending minimal effort because they live alongside the and think european christian are the same as theirs😂 civil and not going to enslave,force convert and be completely intolerant till the entire population is Converted ,Unlike turkey.history is my favourite subject so when theres a contradiction i can't help but intervene.im neither turkish nor spanish but your comment was so outrageously propagandist like turkey today has a surviving christian population while"Spain" doesn't.im pretty sure turkey is more secular then Spain,since spanish people still follow catholicism.😂,my Very long comment explaining how wrong you are got deleted when an ad pop up and it appare reset my very lpng comment.i tried to make a shorter one but an ad show up prematurely so i pause and this is the shortest comment to tell you how wrong and propagandist you are as a history lover to say spain was more tolerant than turkey😂when unlike turkey, Spanish muslim minority dissapear😹😂🤣. DON'T LIE IN HISTORY

[@hellequin.303]

human history is resist or become a slave

[@Unsolicited-Info]

Don’t touch our boats

[@dhjgjkd]

Someone in the comments suggest that Barbary pirates started to raid the european coasts as a response to "Castillan aggression" and the "economic war" waged by Europe against the Barbary States. Too bad that Barbary pirates were basically the modern era "saracens", that attacked the coasts of Europe almost non-stop from 700 to 1300.

[@lastword8783]

Who cares. The knights of Malta and the portugese did the same. Venetians and Genoese sold Christians as Slaves to Muslims. Africans sold eachother to slavery. The Knights of Rhodes and Malta would enslave Muslims.

[@psssshhh7730]

And what about the before 700 to however long the Romans were giving everyone in north africa a reason to hate everything north of the sea?

[@HackerArmy03]

@@psssshhh7730 Huh. And what about Egypt? What of Mesopotamia? What of the Neanderthals? What kind of question is that?

[@psssshhh7730]

@@HackerArmy03 Well, if it really is too complex for you. ooga - bad muslim invade rome land for ages! So, if booga do anything - it ok. Meanwhile the romans were the invaders and the lands they lost were just the places they're foreign asses got kicked out of. There were definitely invasions of europe, but only after the first wave of romaboos set out and gave everyone a veery good reason to hate them. The roman invasions were the first blow to this, and all things after were retaliations. The end.

[@HackerArmy03]

@@psssshhh7730 "Foreign" funny, because they were kicked out by actual Foreigners with a different culture and religion. They were there for a thousand years, their religion and culture entrenched. Stop undermining the islamic invasions and blaming everything entirely on Europeans... but then I guess, there's a reason why the region is still undeveloped.

[@drewanderson2768]

Makes the French occupation of Algeria make more sense

[@ridalger16]

Yes but while I find this country's past disgusting, it doesn't justify the horrors on civilians that occured in the 130 years of occupation Algeria suffered at the hands of the French. It just proves that no matter the religion, origin, or cultural background of a human, we are all capable of the worst.

[@lolasdm6959]

no

[@lolasdm6959]

@@ridalger16 Some are more than others, more so if they are empowered by pseudo scientific race theory.

[@thanhhoangnguyen4754]

​@@lolasdm6959 Plus france own them for the supply that they give in Napoleonic war. They already been burn by the USA and then by the the great of great of power ( mainly Britain) they hardly have any ship left to threaten the Great Power.

[@bozomori2287]

Piracy stopped before the invasion you fools

[@ayhanfedai5013]

Barbarossa brothers father was a retired sipahi and wanted to start sea trade in Aegean sea but attacked by knight of Rodos and 2of 4 brother got captured and didnt relased even they paid all family fortunes as payment , they had to bribe 1 knigt and rescued 1 of brothers but 1 died. Also baba Oruc had lost 1 arm and made a silver prostetic for that and know as "Silver arm" . name Baba "father" given to him by musims and jews he saved from Spanish

[@pn9468]

Denmark is rather too large on that map. Doesn't sit well with us Swedes. 😀 Seriously, thanks for this very interesting video.

[@nvelsen1975]

Yeah it's scaled to importance, that's why Sweden is so small. 😜

[@drpepper3838]

Bombardement of algiers 1816 by dutch/English

[@ayzac6277]

Also Jack Sparrow Was A British Corsair Who Were A Turned Turk So Became A Turkish Corsair Of Ottoman Empire

[@VioletDrakka]

Barbary Corsairs learned most important rule on the sea: don't touch US boats

[@collectionenjoyer1907]

Except Yemen. Yemen is allowed.

[@Sectarian.]

They like forced the US to pay them tribute and at one point a significant percentage of the US economy went to building a warship for the Corsairs as per their request.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@user-eqwl2htry45Il Why do you think the guy is American. And who cares about you hearing the cause and complaints, peaceful demonstration never works anyways. As the American fleet have demonstrated time and again, force of arms is the only thing that actually matters in this context. Good thing Asymmetrical warfare has became more and more viable with cheap batteries, drones and proliferation of rocket technology. The times of Hegemony are coming to an end.

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

​@@lolasdm6959 You are delusional.

[@cracksmoker1506]

We constantly stole americans ships, you said "we ended the corsairs" and then we continued, you were even paying us to not touch your ships, we took your money and touched your ships 😂

[@ModestSyla]

baba Orik

[@acethesupervillain348]

"Berber" is an exonym for the Amazigh peoples. It basically means "barbarian".

[@Tarico_]

Synonym*

[@AttaMan]

@@Tarico_Exonym*

[@zakback9937]

Pronounced as Bijaia not Biyaya. And Tlemcen as Tilemsen. Don't where you get that.

[@12vscience]

a

[@samg.5165]

These comments are kind of wild. Imagine using the atrocities of one culture to excuse those of another. Doesn't matter if it's Muslims or Christian Europeans doing it, it's cringe either way.

[@Thanan548]

We need to accept that all of it happened and move on. So many ppl dwell on the past on things that they were never a part of.

[@ridalger16]

Finally, a decent comment

[@u98626]

Slavery is still a global problem. The economics around it and names for it have been added, but worldwide today people are forced into situations to work for the benefit of others that are difficult or impossible to escape.

[@shellshockedgerman3947]

Yea well any content dealing with history about Muslims will always attract those kind of people.

[@dogwhistle8836]

Why don't you like "diverse" comments? It's like you want to force everyone to think like you, are you 1 if those fascists the media shouts about every 5 seconds?

[@homuraakemi493]

When will they pay reparations?

[@subashira]

Is this an attempt to equate the consequences of the Barbary slave trade to those of the Euro-American Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

[@collectionenjoyer1907]

Why would they? African Americans play the slavery card to boost their demands for an end to modern discrimination. There is no modern discrimination between North Africans and Europeans that benifit the Africans.

[@whyismyricewet1986]

@@subashira yeah

[@ridalger16]

I accept the idea but still dumb to compare this with the Trans Atlantic slave trade. You're comparing one evil with another that is 1000% worse.

[@johnhenry4844]

@@ridalger16 You again must be Abdul, Arab slave trade and Black Sea slave trade?

[@SpartanJoe193]

As far as Newfoundland? I am on cocaine or is this actually true?

[@ridalger16]

Could be yes. I know for a fact that the Irish one is true but it wasn't for evil purposes apparently. Seems the Algerian corsairs helped the Irish and there's a pub there in honor of that or something

[@dogwhistle8836]

Wrong these diverse Muslims took the whole village of Baltimore Co Cork Ireland and enslaved them or was it they schooled them on their white privilege, which ever 1 they did it was a nightmare for the poor people

[@_caracalla_]

@@dogwhistle8836 dude i think you are a joke at this point.

[@etuanno]

Could very well be. They even raided Iceland in 1607 and 1627!

[@SpartanJoe193]

@@etuanno Any accounts of such?

[@ProductofWit]

Kind of Maghreb vikings in a way.

[@ProductofWit]

Fuck this comments section, by the way.

[@Casmaniac]

More like Arabian/Muslim privateers imo

[@dogwhistle8836]

According to Google the vikings are black Africans and this video said they were diverse 😂

[@VrouwenbesnijderHabashi]

People forget that slave raiding went both ways. Spanish, portoguese, maltese and venetian pirates also frequently raided north african coasts to acquire slaves. Livorno for example had a slave population of 25% kidnapped from north africa. Malta used to be a huge slavery penal colony even the famous Barbarossa spent some time as a galley slave. So it was not just poor innocent defenseless christians being raided by "pirates" like some braindead people here in the comments try to claim. Not only Muslims were enslaved but the protestants as well. A famous example is Dutch Admiral Piet Hein who spent years as a galley slave in Spain

[@DJ-fl4gn]

The obvious issue though is that everyone and their dog talks about Western slavery, whereas many people don't even know that Europeans were themselves enslaved.

[@islammehmeov2334]

​@@DJ-fl4gnIf I remember correctly Ancient Greeks and Roman's ENSLAVED europeans too Spartacus rebellion is good example

[@Itskal3]

@@DJ-fl4gnYou can cry wolf all you want but it’s not like white folks didn’t create pseudo race theories about why they were superior and why others should be enslaved based on race. The world we live in today is still dominated by that white hegemony. Let’s just pretend white people didn’t do anything bad, like say, wiped out the native population of two continents (NA & AU).

[@alltat]

@@islammehmeov2334 The ancient Greeks and Romans had no restrictions on who could be a slave, only under what circumstances someone could be enslaved. Being on the losing side of a war made you fair game.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Its false the only slaves Muslims is Corsairs ; militars etc in battles very very few civil.populstion slaved for Christians for no have a big number of Muslims in Christians territories of course they may be thousands in one battle .