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E. Hamilton Currey. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS
CHAPTER II. THE COMING OF THE CORSAIRS
CHAPTER III. URUJ BARBAROSSA
CHAPTER IV. THE DEATH OF URUJ BARBAROSSA
CHAPTER V. KHEYR-ED-DIN BARBAROSSA
CHAPTER VI. THE TAKING OF THE PEÑON D’ALGER; ANDREA DORIA
CHAPTER VII. THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE CORSAIR KING
CHAPTER VIII. THE RAID ON THE COAST OF ITALY; JULIA GONZAGA
CHAPTER IX. BARCELONA, MAY 1535; THE GATHERING OF THE CHRISTIAN HOSTS
CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF TUNIS AND THE FLIGHT OF BARBAROSSA
CHAPTER XI. ROXALANA AND THE MURDER OF IBRAHIM
CHAPTER XII. THE PREVESA CAMPAIGN; THE GATHERING OF THE FLEETS
CHAPTER XIII. THE BATTLE OF PREVESA
CHAPTER XIV. THE NAVY OF OARS. THE GALLEY, THE GALEASSE, AND THE NEF
CHAPTER XV. DRAGUT-REIS
CHAPTER XVI. DRAGUT-REIS
CHAPTER XVII. DRAGUT-REIS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN
CHAPTER XIX. DRAGUT-REIS
CHAPTER XX. THE SIEGE OF MALTA
CHAPTER XXI. ALI BASHA
CHAPTER XXII. LEPANTO
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED
LIST OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, SULTANS OF TURKEY, POPES OF ROME, AND GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA, BETWEEN THE DATES 1492–1580, THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS BOOK
DISTANCES IN SEA MILES ON THE COAST OF NORTHERN AFRICA
INDEX
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E. Hamilton Currey
Published by Good Press, 2019
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To the peaceful mariner who wished merely to trade, to the individual whose business called him overseas, this epoch must have been one of terror unspeakable. The ordinary perils of the deep were quite enough to keep timid folk at home in those days of clumsy, ill-found sailing ships, which could by no means work to windward, and did not sail remarkably well even with the most favouring breezes; when to this we add that every ship which started on a voyage in the Mediterranean had before her the chance of being captured by the corsairs, it was no wonder that he whose business led him oversea should make his last will and testament and bid a fond farewell to all his relatives.
There is a record in the Mémoires of the Rev. Frère Pierre d’An, Bachelier en Théologie de la Faculté de Paris, etc., who wrote in a most heartfelt manner concerning the danger of the sea and the perils to be expected from the Barbary corsairs. He says, date 1637:
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