Finally, Jo Walton's Among Others (Corsair) is for anyone who has ever wanted to "climb into a book and pull it up over your head".
Correction Dear Henry ReprintsHe was also a corsair, a slaver, a military adventurer and a spendthrift, mostly with other people's money.
He was, he liked to say, a "corsair of the Republic", implicitly given permission to proceed with dash and without compunction.
It remained a corsair stronghold until captured by the French in 1839.
In 1840 he founded Corsaren ("The Corsair"), a satirical weekly expressing liberal and democratic ideas.
His sovereignty was also acclaimed by the corsair enclave in Fraxinetum (Frakhshinīṭ; modern-day La-Garde-Freinet), in southern France.
The corsair leader Khayr al-Dīn, known as Barbarossa, had made himself master of Algiers (1529) and acknowledged the suzerainty of the sultan of Constantinople.
Gijón was burned during civil wars in 1395 and, in the 16th and 17th centuries, suffered many corsair attacks.
However, changes in the official trade system eventually provoked new discontent along the coast, and during the 1550s corsair fleets looted the Shanghai-Ningbo region almost annually, sometimes sending raiding parties far inland to terrorize cities and villages throughout the whole Yangtze delta.
Old Ténès, probably founded in 875 ce by Spanish colonists, belonged to the city of Tlemcen from 1299 until its capture by the corsair Khayr al-Dīn (Barbarossa) in 1517.
Dey, in the Ottoman provinces of Algiers and Tunis, an honorary title conferred upon exceptionally able corsair leaders; also, a lower rank of officer in the Janissaries.
