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corsair

Pirate based on the North African Barbary Coast. From the 16th century onwards the corsairs plundered shipping in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, holding hostages for ransom or selling them as slaves. Although many punitive expeditions were sent against them, they were not suppressed until France occupied Algiers in 1830.

Most pirates were Turkish or North African, but there were also many Europeans, such as the Englishman Sir Francis Verney, half-brother of Edmund Verney.



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On this expedition was taken the galley called the Prize, whose captain was a son of the famous corsair Barbarossa.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
, who came in hungry at dinner-time; and not in the least like a nobleman turned Corsair out of pure scorn for his race, or like a renegade with a turban and crescent, unless it were in the irritability of his temper.
Brother Jacob by Eliot, George View in context
D'Artagnan pronounced these words with an indefinable tone of feigned bonhomie, for he knew very well that the victim of pirates was an old corsair, and had engaged him in consequence of that knowledge.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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