Raiding Quotes
The Franks on the First Crusade, had a terrible reputation for greed and rapine amongst the Muslims. But it was equally shared by many of the Christians. Comnena was one of the Christian writers to reveal their atrocities and other dishonorable characteristics. To this day, there are some Muslim terrorists who justify their modern atrocities as retaliation and vengeance for the behavior of the Christians during the Crusades.
villages in the African interior Slave raiding of Black African villages was well entrenched long before Europeans and Americans discovered the profits of the slave trade. Even at the height of the African slave trade, most European slavers purchased their slaves from Muslim slave traders who did the initial capturing and sold them to the Europeans and Americans for transport. Note the description of the excellent character of the Sultan who was generous and egalitarian with fellow Muslims but viciously captured non-Muslims and used and sold them as slaves. Ibn Battuta saw nothing inconsistent in that as the Koran only prohibited keeping Muslims in slavery
Many people are surprised that Washington had a small navy, and he made very effective use of it. He had 8 schooners ranging from 40-80 tons, each armed with 4-10 cannon and manned by overly large crews (for sailing and firing the guns at the same time) of volunteer expert seamen from Marblehead and Beverly. However, he used his ships very strategically. The British were blockading Boston {636957} yet they themselves had to be resupplied from England or Canada or by small boats to their various military encampments and ships around Boston. It was this resupply and troop movement that Washington interdicted. In a sense, he blockaded the blockaders. . Of the 35 supply ships the British sent to Boston in 1775, only 8 got through Washington’s Navy. Note that Washington ordered offensive operations in the latter part of 1775, before the hostilities of 1776.
