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Thread #63880 Message #1041427
Posted By: Rapparee
24-Oct-03 - 11:06 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: How Barbary Pirates Learned Their Trade
Subject: RE: Folklore: How Barbary Pirates Learned Their Tr
Amos, an article in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica lists Barbary piracy as early as 1492. See it here:
http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Topics/history/American_and_Military/Barbary_Pirates/Britannica_1911*.html
I can't get a decent clicky made, for some reason, but that's the URL I copied.