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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

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Last time, we discussed the fall of Rouge Barbarossa and the rise of his brother His Ear Barbarossa.

After his rise to Pasha, he became a world famous figure.

This presented a problem. His ear started out as a privateer in the eyes of the

Ottomans and a pirate in the eyes of the Europeans, but what happens when a

pirate is integrated into the Navy,

and not, you know, commandeered into fighting a battle

against his wishes, but when the pirate becomes a governor and admiral.

Hisir Barbarossa, on all of his vessels, flew the flag of the Ottoman Empire.

He flew it high and he flew it proud.

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