Martin Antonenko
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The Sack of Baltimore...
On the morning of July 20, 1631, Algerian corsairs attacked the southernmost Irish city of Baltimore in County Cork.
They are leaded by Murad Reis, who is actually a Dutch captain named Jan Janszoon van Haarlem ...
... who became a pirate ...
... initially on his own account and then joined the corsairs and adopted an Islamic name ...:
The Algerian Dutchman's crew is just as diverse.
It consists of Dutch, Algerians and Ottoman Turks!
The Cossar leader had the idea of raiding Baltimore brought by a fisherman from this town called Hackett, who had fallen into the hands of the Cossars a few days earlier - and who, in order to save his own life, found the way to the port of Baltimore had instructed.
The sack goes very fast:
The corsairs land around 2 a.m. ...
... plunder the city extensively and kill a number of residents who try to offer some kind of resistance ...:
Then they devote themselves to their actual goal and kidnap 237 Irish residents and 107 newly settled English farmers - men, women and children - into slavery ...:
The human booty is then sold in the slave market in Algiers.
The corsair leader Murad Reis ("rice" means nothing else than "captain") keeps his word and puts the fisherman Hackett on shore alive and unharmed - but that doesn't help much.
Scarcely have the sails of the agile and fast Cossar shequee disappeared below the horizon ...
... Hackett is hung up by the angry residents of Baltimore ...:
To this day, the name of a pub in the city recalls June 20, 1631 ...:
There is also a book about it ...:
By the way, one of the pictures shown above by Jan Janszoon van Haarlem alias Murad Reis was the template for the 75 mm figure "The Arrogant" from "Best Soldiers" (No. BS75-005) ...:
Cheers
On the morning of July 20, 1631, Algerian corsairs attacked the southernmost Irish city of Baltimore in County Cork.
They are leaded by Murad Reis, who is actually a Dutch captain named Jan Janszoon van Haarlem ...
... who became a pirate ...
... initially on his own account and then joined the corsairs and adopted an Islamic name ...:
The Algerian Dutchman's crew is just as diverse.
It consists of Dutch, Algerians and Ottoman Turks!
The Cossar leader had the idea of raiding Baltimore brought by a fisherman from this town called Hackett, who had fallen into the hands of the Cossars a few days earlier - and who, in order to save his own life, found the way to the port of Baltimore had instructed.
The sack goes very fast:
The corsairs land around 2 a.m. ...
... plunder the city extensively and kill a number of residents who try to offer some kind of resistance ...:
Then they devote themselves to their actual goal and kidnap 237 Irish residents and 107 newly settled English farmers - men, women and children - into slavery ...:
The human booty is then sold in the slave market in Algiers.
The corsair leader Murad Reis ("rice" means nothing else than "captain") keeps his word and puts the fisherman Hackett on shore alive and unharmed - but that doesn't help much.
Scarcely have the sails of the agile and fast Cossar shequee disappeared below the horizon ...
... Hackett is hung up by the angry residents of Baltimore ...:
To this day, the name of a pub in the city recalls June 20, 1631 ...:
There is also a book about it ...:
By the way, one of the pictures shown above by Jan Janszoon van Haarlem alias Murad Reis was the template for the 75 mm figure "The Arrogant" from "Best Soldiers" (No. BS75-005) ...:
Cheers
