User:Ficaia/List of sea fights involving Barbary corsairs

The Barbary corsairs were pirates and privateers who operated out of the Barbary states of north-west Africa, seizing merchant ships and launching raids (razzias) on European coastal towns and villages in quest of slaves and plunder, often under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire. Their reign began during the period of Ottoman expansion into North Africa in the 16th century and reached a high point in the early-to-mid-17th century, before declining in the face of the increasingly sophisticated and well-armed European ship of the line. Barbary corsairs fought numerous armed engagements with European merchant and military ships and raided settlements as far afield as Italy and Iceland. The following is a descriptive list of such engagements for which details survive.