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Nick Szabo·2026-02-05 20:09
RT Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK)🇬🇧 For 300 years, North African pirates enslaved over a million Europeans. 🇬🇧Spain. Italy. France. Ireland. Even Iceland.Entire villages taken.Europe paid ransoms. Begged. No one could stop it.Then Britain sailed into Algiers harbour. 50,000 cannonballs. 9 hours.Every slave walked free. Not just British. All of them.300 years of terror. Ended in a single day.Be proud of us. 🇬🇧 ...