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The Mount's Bay Raid

Mount's Bay, Cornwall

Corsairs from North Africa carry off villagers from a Cornish church.

In the 1600s, pirates from North Africa, often called Barbary corsairs, raided the coasts of south-west England. In 1625 they struck Mount's Bay and seized about 60 men, women and children from a church during worship.

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When
1625
Where
50.1000, -5.4800
Group
Pirates

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Mount's Bay is overlooked by St Michael's Mount and Marazion.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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