no one knows the fate of the corsair's treasure-filled ship

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On a resupply mission to Malta in August 1801, the twelve-gun schooner Enterprise under the command of Lieutenant Andrew Sterett encountered a 14-gun Tripolitan corsair. John Yoo, National Review, "Lessons from the United States’ Showdown with the Barbary Pirates," 15 Jan. 2020

Congratulations then to President Trump and America’s intelligence and military for pursuing this corsair to his lair and causing him to kill himself (and, tragically, his final victims, two children). Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 7 Nov. 2019

Queen of the seas, Britain seemed to countenance the pirating activities of the North African corsairs. Thomas Wendel, National Review, "The Beginning of a Nation," 4 July 2019

From ancient Norse princess Alfhild to Sayyida al-Hurra of the Barbary corsairs, these women sailed beside–and sometimes in command of–male pirates. Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "The Swashbuckling History of Women Pirates," 12 Apr. 2017

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