Pirates: Barbary Corsairs & The Bombardment of Algiers

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You could call it gunboat diplomacy. These were not boats. They were ships. The leading vessel had triple bank decks mounting iron guns. All of them now run out through open gunpowder.

With a hundred cannons, she was one of the biggest and most potent battleships that point in history. HMS Queen Charlotte. Ops. Not the most terrifying name in the roster of the Royal Navy, not quite up there with war spite, implacable, invincible Ark Royal.

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