Nearly 20 years ago, a team from the Florida-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) was searching for the wreckage of an English Navy vessel that sank in the Strait of Gibraltar in 1694 ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: The tactical defeats presented here, however, meet Carl von Clausewitz’s standard for “operations that have direct political repercussions”—namely ...

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in ...

alleging that Gaspar fought the Barbary pirates of Tripoli before making captain, then sailed to the Caribbean to fight and capture the buccaneers, before rising to admiral of the Atlantic Fleet ...

U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.