Battles of Barbary Pirates and Privateers: A photo essay

by Liz Publika

1538 Battle of Preveza (1866)

by Ohannes Umed Behzad

A French ship and Barbary pirates (1615)

by Aert Anthoniszoon (1579-1620)

The Dutch in Tripoli (1670)

by Lieve Pietersz Verschuier (1627 — 1686)

Bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth in August 1816 (1820)

by Thomas Luny (1759-1837)

Scene of the attack of Amiral Dupperé (ship La Provence) during the bombing of Algiers in 1830 (circa 1837)

by Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810-1871)

Battle of a French ship of the line and two galleys of the Barbary corsairs (1858)

by Théodore Gudin (1802-1880)

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