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The Sack of Baltimore

Baltimore, County Cork

Barbary pirates carried a whole village off to slavery in Algiers.

Before dawn on 20 June 1631, pirates from North Africa, led by a Dutch captain who had turned Muslim, landed at the village of Baltimore. They seized 107 people, mostly English settlers, and carried them off to be sold as slaves in Algiers.

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When
20 June 1631
Where
51.4830, -9.3730
Group
Pirates

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A pretty harbour village, with ferries to the islands of Roaringwater Bay.

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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