I was talking about the Bosporus straits and the Dardanelles
At Constantinople....Istanbul, modern Turkey
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- Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:45 pm
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- Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
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- Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:35 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
What are the Sund Registers?
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:50 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
they do exist
Foreign ships are registered under the heading Duvvel-i Ecnebiye.
They are the so-called firmans that you can read on accounts of Captains who wanted to pass through the straights.
Foreign ships are registered under the heading Duvvel-i Ecnebiye.
They are the so-called firmans that you can read on accounts of Captains who wanted to pass through the straights.
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:26 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
For a total number of guns available to each Island of the Aegean in 1813
see the book by the French diplomat François Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grece, vol.6, p.294 etc.
available here...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65341833/f326.image
although the numbers seem a bit exaggerated (or not?)
see the book by the French diplomat François Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grece, vol.6, p.294 etc.
available here...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65341833/f326.image
although the numbers seem a bit exaggerated (or not?)
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:04 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
This is info during the Revolution. For the period 1780-1820, that is for the size and armament of the vessels from Hydra, Spetses, and Psara, which were nominally Ottoman, there must be a good source in the Turkish Archives. They registered in detail all the vessels passing through Bosporus. If you...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:19 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
They had to, for those Captains in that period of extreme insecurity trade and war were not mutually exclusive. No privateer could challenge them, only true warships. Unfotrunately there is no thorough historical study of those vessels. Usual historical narratives of the Revolution focus on glorious...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:55 pm
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Ares or Aris (Άρης), was also built as a merchant vessel and blockade runner.
reliable info here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_brig_Aris
reliable info here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_brig_Aris
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:05 am
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Greek merchant vessels were fitted from the start as blockade runners and carried from 8 to even 14 guns. The Ottoman navy relied heavily on Greek sailors to man the battle fleet. Every year the Capudan Pasha would send out emmisaries to the islands to gather the crews. When the revolution broke out...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:48 am
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
The length unit of measurement was the greek πήχης, about 75 centimeters.
the cost was 75,000 spanish dollars (talira).
Agamemnon was indeed built as a warship and Bouboulina had serious trouble with the Ottoman authorities.
Giannos Giannouzas was one of her sons fron her first husband.
the cost was 75,000 spanish dollars (talira).
Agamemnon was indeed built as a warship and Bouboulina had serious trouble with the Ottoman authorities.
Giannos Giannouzas was one of her sons fron her first husband.
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:39 am
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Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s
With regard to Bouboulina one can start here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskarina_Bouboulina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskarina_Bouboulina