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Thread #96748   Message #1897368
Posted By: ard mhacha
01-Dec-06 - 08:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Subject: RE: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Teribus You haven`t come up with any information on the raid on Skibereen by the Corsairs, also the ports in Ireland used by the north African Corsairs,still waiting.
You could have mentioned that those same north AfricanS were aided by Elizabeth the first of England, when she provided weapons to the Moroccans for use against the Catholic Portuguese,also Charles the first was happy to seek the help of the Moroccans against Spain in the 1620s.
England relied on Algeria and Morocco to provision Gibraltar and Minorca two of her colonial outposts during her war with Spain, at the same time, the Corsairs were raiding English shipping around her southern coast.