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2020 - Captain Fawcett Joins Barbary Brothers

1516 - Rise of the Barbary Brothers

After a revolt in the mid-17th century reduced the ruling Ottoman Pashas to little more than figureheads in the region, the towns of Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis, and others became independent in all but name. Without a large central authority and its laws, the pirates themselves started to gain much influence.