The balance of advantage in this guerilla warfare was with thecorsairs until Girolame Canale, a Venetian captain, seized one of the Moslem leaders known as "The Young Moor of Alexandria.
Barbarossa--King of the Corsairs 97 From Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean.
Soliman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, had lent three hundred of his Janissaries, his own picked troops, to assist the corsairs in their depredations on Venetian commerce.
These corsairs of ours obviously knew and took advantage of this superstition, for cannon were never resorted to without good reason, and never without effect.
But, from all accounts, Elizabeth's corsairs had always the best of it in matters of material importance.
Santa Cruz reflected more deeply, and advised the King that such acts were positively courting disaster, because "the British corsairs had teeth, and could use them.
These corsairs have a covenant with the King that he shall get all the horses they capture, and all other plunder shall remain with them.
With the King's connivance many corsairs launch from this port to plunder merchants.
The corsairs took everything out of the ship, and then left it to the crew with its tackle, so that they were able to reach Aden.
NOTE 2] A multitude of corsairs frequent the Island; they come there and encamp and put up their plunder to sale; and this they do to good profit, for the Christians of the Island purchase it, knowing well that it is Saracen or Pagan gear.
The Bawárij were corsairs of Kach'h and Guzerat, so called from using a kind of war-vessel called Bárja.
The unceasing raids of the corsairs of the Barbary coast had not only rendered the sea unsafe, but devastated the shores of Italy and Spain.
Neither sex nor age were spared; and Christians, we are told, were sold as slaves to the Algerian corsairs for a carbine a piece.
Saracen corsairs carried off the monks; the convent was laid in ruins; and the lone island remained uninhabited for a long course of years, except by wild goats.
In 1801, not long before our expedition, the French Admiral Gaunthomme over-hauled two Tunisian corsairs in chase of some Neapolitan vessels.
England or France might have put them down by a word long before; but, as the corsairs chiefly ravaged the defenceless coasts of Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples, the two great powers had no particular interest in crushing them.
And their relations to the Moors of Africa and possible league with the corsairs of the Mediterranean aroused distrust.
Cyprus had fallen, Malta had sustained a terrible siege, and the coasts of Italy and Spain were exposed to frightful ravages, in which the corsairs of the Barbary states joined hands with the Turks.
Less than sixty years ago the Algerine corsairs were the pest of the civilised world and the terror of the Mediterranean.
Since 1785 it had been necessary to protect American commerce from the Barbary corsairs by paying tribute, but their demands grew so exorbitant that war was at last declared against Tripoli, and a squadron dispatched to the Mediterranean.
One of France's most activecorsairs was Giovanni da Verazzano.
The corsairs did not gain upon us, and we well knew that for a good hour or more we should have them to ourselves, should we overtake them.
On arriving we found that the corsairs had been honourably received by the French admiral, and that assistance had been given to them to dispose of their plunder.
Her complement of men we had no difficulty in obtaining, as the corsairs who had just been captured were glad to obtain good pay and to escape having to serve on board the Parliamentary ships.
Thence we sailed for Salee, to compel the corsairs of that State to restore their Christian captives to freedom.
His vessel, he said, was the only one which had escaped from Malaga, on the coast of Andalusia, into which the corsairs had entered and burnt six of his consorts under the very guns of the Spanish batteries.
Here some weeks passed, the crews fuming at the delay, and hoping every day that we might be able to get at the corsairs and punish them as they deserved.
There are castles on either side of the harbour, and the corsairs have thrown up earthworks, armed with heavy guns, for the protection of their ships, so that they would blow us out of the water should we attempt to enter.
The admiral, who was well acquainted with the dilatoriness of Spanish diplomacy, not waiting for leave, bearing down on the corsairs attacked the Roebuck, the largest of their ships, and quickly mastered her.
The corsairs are generally Japanese or revolted Chinese.
The German corsairs were coming closer to their prey, displaying neutral flags, in order to deceive.
The dreams of his childhood when he used to devour stories of corsairs and novels of maritime adventures seemed about to be realized.
One night a band of these boldcorsairs struck suddenly in the darkness, and landed on the western end of the Chiaia, well outside the limits of the city.
When the corsairs had won the gatehouse, they were still at some distance from the castle, which towers on a crag several hundred feet higher, strengthened with towers, and having guardrooms for a substantial number of defenders.
The corsairs in all generations had a rendezvous at Capri, which served them much the same useful purpose as Lundy, at the entrance of the Bristol Channel, did to others of their breed.
The records show that Murakami Yoshihiro, of Iyo province, obtained control of all the corsairs in neighbouring seas and developed great puissance.
Understanding that there was no danger from corsairs on the voyage, I sent the ships, as usual, without artillery.
This pronouncement gave the corsairs all the assurance they required.
Grief-stricken his corsairsbore him back aboard the carack.
All else thou'lt leave aboard here, and two hundred picked corsairs to go a voyage with me overseas, men that will act as mariners and fighters.
When his galley was captured by Muslim corsairs he took the only way of escape that offered.
But the corsairs charged home as gallantly, utterly reckless of life, eager to slay in the name of Allah and His Prophet and scarcely less eager to die if it should please the All-pitiful that their destinies should be here fulfilled.
If it should come to grips between us--as well it may if what I suspect be true--there is no doubt as to the side upon which the corsairs would range themselves.
After them followed but some two score corsairs as a guard of honour to their leader.
The corsairs thrust her forward against him, still vainly battling, and his arms closed about her for a moment.
With a shrug the dalal began his circuit of the well, the corsairs thrusting Lionel after him.
The datal made a sign, whereupon the corsairs dragged her struggling forth.
His corsairs preyed upon the commerce of Frenchman or Spaniard without regard for treaties.
The rest are corsairs and sea-robbers, who have united themselves with the former in a sort of independent republic.
The corsairsfired once more, but their shots were unanswered; and with wild yells and shouts they approached the motionless Spanish vessel.
I myself have, a score of times, defended my ships againstcorsairs and pirates, Genoese, and other enemies.
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