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Thread #58152   Message #919059
Posted By: InOBU
26-Mar-03 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Battle, Brits in Persia 17th century.
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Battle, Brits in Persia 17th century.
May York is right, Majorca, Lurting has a lot of great almost pernunciations... and Persia... he refers to the pirates as Turks, from Algeria, so I presume that the whole north of africa, under the persian empire, to the British sailor of his day, was Turkey. Cheers, Larry