Sack of Baltimore
1631 raid by Barbary slave traders on Baltimore, County Cork, Kingdom of Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa — the raiders included Dutchmen, Algerians, and Ottoman Turks. The attack was the largest by Barbary slave traders on Ireland.[1][2]
The attack was led by an expatriate Dutch captain, Murad Reis the Younger (formerly Jan Janszoon van Haarlem), who had been enslaved by Algerians but released when he renounced his faith and converted to Islam. Murad's force was led to the village by an Irish Catholic known as John Hackett — the captain of a fishing boat that had been captured earlier — purportedly in exchange for his freedom although dark conspiracy theories regarding Hackett, Sir Walter Coppinger, and Murad persist (see Sack of Baltimore#Conspiracy speculation). Hackett was subsequently hanged from the cliff-top outside the village for conspiracy.[3][4]