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When the fleet of Barbary pirate vessels left the harbor of Algiers in late 1609,

things didn't look great for the Barbary Pirates.

At least, they looked bad for this particular brand of European Barbary Pirates.

John Ward, Simon Dansaker, Sir Francis Verney, Bill Graves, Richard Bishop, Big Pete, and all of the captains with famous

names, well they all had decisions to make. Recently, Barbary had become a lot less friendly toward the pirates than it once had been.

Now, Barbary had long had a culture of Corsair's and privateers, dating back to 1492 at the least and the brothers Barbarossa.

Under Suleiman the Magnificent, alongside whom the brothers Barbarossa fought,

the Ottoman Empire grew into an up-and-coming world-class power. They always had big expansive

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