‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer

If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century. In good part it was in reaction to them, and their slavery raids on English and other coasts across Europe, and their piracy that started the English era of privateers in reaction.

Re: ‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer

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Post by ghaff » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

nsx147 wrote: post #2

Ralegh? Raleigh is the capital of NC named after this guy

To my considerable surprise, both spellings are apparently correct but I've never seen the "Ralegh" one which would seem to be far less common.

Re: ‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer

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Post by tamizhar » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:55 PM UTC

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #7

tamizhar wrote: post #5

The original Somali "pirate".

If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century. In good part it was in reaction to them, and their slavery raids on English and other coasts across Europe, and their piracy that started the English era of privateers in reaction.

> If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century.

Your sentence is missing a clause. Please explain.