Barbary Corsairs: Europe‘s Pirate Nightmare

[@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.

[@HabibAkili]

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]

​@@HabibAkili 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.

[@zackfair_og]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@HabibAkili]

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"

[@theawesomeman9821]

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

[@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？

[@demilung]

Hey there, parther, if you though to scroll into the comment section to see some additions or insight - don't. This subject has triggered ideological detectors of several groups of people who think that turning the comment section into a cesspit of mismatched politics is a good way to approach 500 years old history.

[@DefeatedRoyalist]

Well said, friend. Objectivity is something we all struggle with. It seems that those who are more insecure are the most vulnerable to limiting their perception of the world to a very subjective silo. Cheers!

[@squish2108]

Yeah, people just want to claim whatever group they hate is bad, using two hundred year-old conflicts to justify it

[@dragonfell5078]

Came here for cool history, was disappointed that people weren't talking about cool history but instead were just using the comment section as a dumping round for their views. "Muslims bad" "what about le Jews?" "Hurr durr christians did it too" bish I came to learn about the Barbary Corsairs, not some stupid political turd-slinging

[@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry]

​@@dragonfell5078 Do not trust neither the ones who opened the gates at Toledo nor the ones who entered thru those gates.

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.

[@angelikalindenau943]

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

[@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

[@zackfair_og]

@@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

[@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

[@ExperiencePlayers]

As always, excited to see the video!

[@shaketin]

Good video but, I wish you put more detail on the battles between America and the Barbary Coast. That’s usually the best thing about your channel is the detail to battles and fortifications.

[@WissHH-]

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

[@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.

[@bigsarge2085]

Another incredible history documentary, thank you!

[@jonathantrego]

Another excellent video! Great work!

[@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

yeah in this era both Spain and Britain were in a contest to see which armadas could be sunk fastest while fighting each other. it is hard to say which power had navel supremacy at any given time. but by the time of the Napoleonic wars the uk had the largest navy while Spain and France had similar size navies with Spain being larger if one counts the south American fleets they had. but in Europe Spain's navy was about the same size of France's.

[@antonludwigaugustvonmacken8680]

Best history channel on youtube

[@chrisyoung1576]

pretty troublesome in empire total war

[@whyismyricewet1986]

what happened to 30 years war videos?

[@gabirican4813]

Thanks!

[@ashleypenn7845]

Perfect for our homeschool unit.Thanks so much for sharing.

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

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

[@2tiddies404]

someone played empire total war lol

[@paronzoda]

Great video

[@carltonbauheimer]

Empires of the Sea is a great book.

[@manonanisland88]

Yet another amazing video!

[@C3ZXAR]

wonder if they got the Barbosa character from this for Pirates of Caribbean

[@alexwest2573]

I’m not sure where they got the idea of his character from but you can buy a functional replica of his sword called the golden coast cutlass on Kult of Athena

[@roberts_nl]

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

[@milkmonster2310]

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

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@vlaanderenvrij]

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

[@oversipelio983]

great video

[@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.

[@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?

[@liamle9315]

Brilliant watch just a shame about the BOT comments as usual

[@zackfair_og]

Yep. Bots are going crazy lol

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

Such as?

[@alexdetrojan4534]

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

[@pro3970]

i would love a video about the Christian Corsairs, you could talk about the Maltese Corsairs and the Knights of saint stephen although info about the latter is rather scarce on the internet but you might find something

[@Yorgar]

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

[@Seen_Differently]

Thatnks for the great video. One remark: the term pirate legaly and historically does not apply to the Barbary corsairs as they were not illegitimate sea Robbers, but rather legitimate sea warriors (corsairs or privateers) sanctioned by legitimate polities to conduct maritime irregular warfareon their enemies. From maritime international law prism, paracy and corsairing are two separate things.

[@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?

[@thewidow7864]

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

[@TalenGryphon]

Barbary Pirates: *Mess with American Citizens* American Marines: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

[@CurtisThomas-l9p]

Israel: messes with USS Liberty US: sends MORE military aid and $$

[@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry]

​@@CurtisThomas-l9p ​Q 9:30, 8:17 F- around and find out...........................................

[@Adam-xi7xq]

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

[@NevisYsbryd]

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

[@Raadpensionaris]

Sea Beggars, by Cecelia Holland

[@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.

[@joeshmoe8345]

Great, thanks

[@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

[@_DarkEmperor]

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

[@Roman.Leave.Me.2.My.Circles]

"Hey don't fuck with my boats, ever again or else" Thomas Jefferson

[@KiljiArslan]

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

[@discountplaguedoctor88]

He got the nickname after dying his beard that color.

[@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!!!"

[@Osd020]

@@1crazyplayer430nah the U.S. has bombed the absolute shit out of Yemen unfortunately, they also supply all the weapons to Saudi-Arabia.

[@nicolaenicolae3289]

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

[@drewanderson2768]

Makes the French occupation of Algeria make more sense

[@zackfair_og]

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]

@@zackfair_og 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

[@officerbanjo4916]

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

[@johnhenry4844]

Border changed quite a lot back then

[@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

[@zackfair_og]

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]

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

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting

[@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?

[@Technobabylon]

One notable figure abducted by the Barbary corsairs was Miguel de Cervantes, the writer of Don Quixote

[@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

[@chungusdisciple9917]

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

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!

[@AironSmieciowy-di3qy]

Great video!

[@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,

[@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.

[@اسكندرفكار]

Canons

[@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.

[@zackfair_og]

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?

[@alexandrub8786]

1:19 Transylvania?

[@BulletProof_Viking]

Not pirates but enslavers. The word pirate is used to cover up the truth and romanticise

[@yichlyichl4204]

They're not exactly mutually exclusive

[@boozecruiser]

Well yeah, same goes for Carribbean or Indian Ocean pirates

[@squish2108]

Pirate should have way more negative connotations than it has, so the title is still fine

[@crazydinosaur8945]

you think "pirates" is a good word? "Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area" is that not WHAT THEY DID??? most pirates in history were enslavers that kinda follow the job julius caesar was famously ransomed by pirates i think you have and to use your own words: a romanticised view of the word pirate

[@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.

[@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.

[@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-f44hil126ylI 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 😂

[@thearki-vist6050]

Knowledge the 🏴‍☠️

[@greasedgamer55]

what's the music you used in the intro ?

[@zeplyn-r6]

Any Europeans and Americans excitedly waiting for the end of the video?😂

[@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.

[@andreweden9405]

Why would you even say that it wasn't about religion? Perhaps it wasn't about religion to the secular United States vis-a-vis the Barbary Wars, but it was definitely about religion to the Muslims! When Thomas Jefferson asked the Algerian Ambassador by what right they were attacking our ships and enslaving our people, in March of 1785, the Algerian Ambassador replied... “it was written in the Quran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their (Islamic) authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” I'm just not sure why you would even say that, unless of course, you have a very specific political agenda.

[@milsob]

Not really The Aforementioned Slave Trade is what happens when you are ignorant of Islamic Teachings. People who criticizes Slavery in Islam by using this Slave Trade as an example are intellectually challenged. The ways of Slavery of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and the Companions is how Slavery should be done, treating the Slave like human and not discriminating based on race.("If you slap a slave, you free the slave")(offensive jihad can only be held on countries who ban Islam. And only if the aim is to allow people in said lands to follow the faith that they like) A clear breaking of a rule here. Is that you are not allowed to enslave other Muslims. He doesn't focus about the religious side of it. Because its mostly a false point. It is a very twisted and ignorant understanding of islam (jahl) Used to justify this (similar to... you you know Christianity and genociding natives🤭) Also... Someone forgot that they still to this day have slaves in africa to extract gold, uranium and other goods for the "civilised westerners" for basically no reward in return (barely getting paied). Someone forgot that they don't even pay the underaged kids that make clothes and shoes in extremely dangerous environements (remember the face mask shortages during covid because most of the factories were in asia?). Someone also forgot about the greeks (correct me if im wrong was it greeks or romans) that considered whoever that isn't from an arostocratic family as slaves, in fact if you weren't from a rich family you weren't able to even vote. But a foreign worker with a decent pay and rights is considered a slave.

[@اسكندرفكار]

​​@@milsob the only reason slavery exists is to not treat certain ppl as decent Humans in order to gain profit and minimise working costs......your prophet treated slaves badly in despite of what you he was saying because he was a hypocrite ....the same way he didn't treat his wifes equally despite preaching that

[@boozecruiser]

Another cocky layman with a weird extremist ideology failing to understand the subtle sides of history. The primary source of conflict was economic and strategic in nature. Religion provided an accepted justification for conflict, but it wasn't the reason they wanted to fight in the first place

[@toadwine7654]

olav haraldson claimed religious reasons when he invaded norway too, but it was all for power and money.

[@khylebaguingan8211]

Wow , another religious extremist who would bring religion to any type of argument or any history you'll be like "i killed him because he isn't part of my religion" when one of your guys gets killed you'll be like "they killed him because they are against our religion" even though the conflict is political & economical

[@RosierJulio]

Un video sobre el emirato de creta,

[@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

[@hellequin.303]

human history is resist or become a slave

[@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 😂

[@muhammadabdullahy9281]

Why front image got changed?

[@kellenlean2076]

Sounds like a great Assassins Creed setting. Ubisoft take notes!

[@zackfair_og]

The Ubisoft you're talking about is long gone, friend.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@zackfair_og why? they can still do that period.

[@cracksmoker1506]

​@@lolasdm6959the game will be shit, hopefully ubisoft goes bankrupt

[@kellenlean2076]

@@cracksmoker1506 good way to never have a chance at another assassins creed game I get the hate for Ubisoft I hate greedy ass corpos as well but unless they sell the IP they’re all we got atm lol I’m a big history guy so I kinda like odyssey and Valhalla to just feel immersed in the setting obviously they lack a lot of things I love about assassins creed but honestly if they were both called something other then assassins creed I feel like I would have very few gripes for both of those games. When you aren’t comparing every single little detail to past amazing games you definitely enjoy it a lot more. Tempering expectations is a skill a lot of people should learn imo to enjoy games more.

[@cracksmoker1506]

@@kellenlean2076 I love it for the historical side and letting us explore these time periods but ubisoft is a devil spawn company, I'd rather they go bankrupt and a company that actually cares buys the AC IP

[@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. 😜

[@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

[@Cpt_Graftin]

Most most

[@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.

[@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

[@SouthernRex-1994]

Damn, muslims really got themselves riled up on the comments section. Guess the religion of peace can't take criticism peacefuly.

[@abhinavpatil759]

There are 10000x more wignats like you here than Muslims, and nothing in the video is "criticism" of Islam lmao

[@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry]

@@abhinavpatil759 Even the devil can appear in the form of an angel of light, the same way he appeared to Momo. Your unholy book is a revelation from the devil.

[@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry]

@@abhinavpatil759 Q 9:30, 8:17 F- around and find out...

[@samy7013]

@@WithoutliesShlimShlamdie-rc9ry : What’s your religion?

[@paul1780]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@Rafael-CL]

Spain did not lose its hegemony in the sea until the XVIII they won the battle of Lepanto and the Anglo-Spanish war ended with a status quo ante bellum but the terms were favorable to Spain.

[@thebigflop3118]

Yeah they did france and england were better and the ottomans rebuilt the lepanto navy in 6 months, youre very wrong😅

[@Rafael-CL]

@@thebigflop3118 No, the spanish keept their control in western mediterranean and the Americas,the french were involved in civil wars, the english were exhausted, the king of England James pursuit a policy of peace until 1624 when the english declared war on Spain and were defeted and sealed peace, the treaty of Madrid confirm the spanish supremacy for several years in other hand the ottomans rebuilt their flleet quickly but they couldn't extend their control beyond easter mediterrenean the ottoman decline started a century later.

[@Raadpensionaris]

Bruh. By the time of the Wars of Louis XIV there barely was a Spanish navy anymore. The Spanish kost their naval capabilities after the Battle of the Downs in 1639.

[@Rafael-CL]

@@Raadpensionaris yes the Spanish armada was diminished and the Dutch became the dominant power until the anglo-dutch war but Spanish navy was rebuilt when the bourbon dynasty came to power a few decades later and retook its position as a major naval power.

[@Raadpensionaris]

@@Rafael-CL Yes, but you said that Spain didn't lose its hegomony until into the 18th century?

[@kmaclub143]

Please do a story on how the Lether necks stopped them.

[@SpartanJoe193]

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

[@zackfair_og]

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?

[@Kilundrum]

Still a touchy subject.

[@jeancompte5848]

Lots of american hypocrisy in the comments... When its the vikings raids from scandinavia its "cool" but when its the corsairs from north africa its "terrorism"

[@emperorkaido8539]

wellsaid bro they are hypocrits just like their nation ....

[@nodosa994]

Yea but.... Vikings dude. More to it than just raiding. Runes, Norse gods, Kingdoms. Is it fair, no. Should you be the one to judge? Sure why not, but why care?

[@FMJIRISH]

Na fuck the Vikings too

[@JamesM99]

@@nodosa994 stop being cringe, vikings were not "cool" they have interesting mythology and culture but from a real-life perspective they're heathen barbarians and would be looked at like ISIS today. Also, to the OP, vikings can get fucked and so can your pirate slavers. You guys just hate being called out for attacking people unprovoked, what did the people of Iceland do to deserve the enslavement and murder of the Algerian and Moroccan pirates in 1627? "In 1627, Iceland was subjected to a series of raids by Islamic corsairs from Algiers and Salé, Morocco." "he first group of corsairs, from Salé, arrived on June 20, 1627, and attacked the southwest corner of the island. They captured between 12 and 15 Icelanders and a similar number of Danish and Dutch sailors. Two people from Grindavík died during the raid. The corsairs also captured two ships and looted a third one. The second group of corsairs, from Algiers, arrived a month later and raided the eastern and southern regions of Iceland. They resulted in the deaths of around thirty people and captured about 400 further individuals who were sold on the slave markets."

[@dmcf236]

thirty years war when will realse

[@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

[@hellohellohellohellohello-h5l]

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]

​@@hellohellohellohellohello-h5lIf I remember correctly Ancient Greeks and Roman's ENSLAVED europeans too Spartacus rebellion is good example

[@Itskal3]

@@hellohellohellohellohello-h5lYou 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 .

[@MatthewDay-q3o]

If you don’t say Newfoundland right imma be upset

[@Dayvit78]

noofin laand

[@MatthewDay-q3o]

@@Dayvit78 mainlanders

[@appletree13]

Newfnlund?

[@Doomer_Optimist]

No one cares what a newfie's got to say