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If I were to truly do the story of the Barbary Pirates justice, the justice it deserves to tell that story in fact, the It's a big story, at least as big as Caribbean piracy and probably bigger.

When I start to focus on the scope of Barbary piracy, I start thinking about comparisons

between the two stories, and some unavoidable similarities pop up.

The most glaring of these is the similarity between Barbaraosa and

Henry Morgan.

They were both of them privateers. They both had their eyes on a larger political goal,

and both of them were ethnic minorities within their society.

They both were religious, but not tremendously so, although Barbarossa probably more so than Henry Morgan.

But what really drives home the comparison is the conquest of Algiers.

If Barbarossa were Henry Morgan, Algiers would be his

sack of Panama. The primary difference in those attacks though is that Morgan left

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