Show Piracy by Warships Until 1820 Turkish warships oper oper- operating operating operating from North African ports as aspirates aspirates pirates used to terrorize the com com- commerce commerce commerce merce of the Mediterranean Cap Cap- Captive Captive Captive tive sailors were carried of off by them to the slave market in Algiers or orthe orthe orthe the prisons in Sallee It was from Malta that resistance was most ef ef- effectively effectively ef- ef effectively organized by the Knights of St. St John who held the island until it was surrendered by their grand master to Napoleon in 1798 The island passed to Britain by the peace of the Amiens 1802 Rocky 1802 Rocky Mountain Herald |