Captain Barbarossa From A Pirate To An Admiral Series

This is book one from three for the complete autobiography for Pirate Barbarossa(Red Beard) or Khaireddine Barbarous who dictated it on his colleague and friend in the sea life the poet and writer Sayed Ali Almuradi. He wrote his autobiography after an order from Sultan Soleiman Alkanuni known as Soleiman The Magnificient. The human is the son of his environment. What does mean this proverb? That means his environmental circumstances influence directly and indirectly his thoughts and behaviors along with his life. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were an extension of the culture of Piracy which had been spread worldwide centuries earlier in the Indian ocean, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean. Piracy was considered as the standard, the norm, and the normal of that era. It was a source of enrichment for normal people and for countries. It was practiced by countries implicitly, so many pirates worked for the account of empires. Barbarossa and his brother Arruj were not the exceptions, they were raised in this world and atmosphere it wasn’t immoral to practice piracy. Something is clear is that they practiced piracy after they were normal traders with their ships and after the imprisonment and the torture of Arruj the Barbarossa's oldest brother by the Rhodes Knights on his way to Tripoli in Lebanon. Barbarossa, an Italian word meaning the Red Beard. Mostly the Venetians in the fifteenth century who called Khaireddine Basha or Khedher with this name. Barbarossa or Khaireddine was born in Midilli island in 1478, he died in Istanbul in 1546. At an early age, he use the ship as we use in our days the cars and all the transportations mean. With time the sea became really his real home. A normal person can work outside throughout the day and return at the end of the day to his home to take a rest, Barbarossa took this rest in his ship’s cabinet in the large of the sea everywhere. Through this autobiography, Barbarossa talked about all the incidents that he lives, saw, or testified about by himself. The religious context at that time was major in his stories as the adversaries the Ottoman empire in aside the Venice, the Spanish and the Portuguese empires in another side each side represents a religion and his followers the Ottoman empire represents Islam, the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Venetians represents the Christianity. The use of w

I nominate this second part as “Arruj Death”, who was the hero of the initial part of this life story. In this second part, Barbarossa continues citing the scenes where he lives with his brother Arruj. The major events took place with the Spaniards on the sea and on the land. The areas holding these incidents are principally Algeria of today including ‘ Algiers’ the Capital, ‘Jijel’, ’Bejaya’ and ‘Telemsan’.’ Tunis’ which is too the metropolis of Tunisia at that stage and now, held a considerable part of his tale for the strange facts that he survive. The east and west of the Mediterranean are involved too in his stories. ‘Fass’ city in Morocco and the south of Spain are introduced here. The crucial event was the death of Barbarossa's brother Arruj in a battle defending his sons. He describes several personalities who had a profound influence on the development of the historic episodes. He talks about treasons that he got from men like ‘Ibn Alkadhi’ who took a space in the time chronicles of his autobiography. Other persons like ‘Massoud’, ‘Abdallah’ and ‘Kara Hasan were considered by him traitors against Ottoman domination in North Africa. The Sultan of ‘Tunis’ and all the conspirators were allied with Spain against him and his brother Arruj. In this part two, the events on the land are comparable in the description to the ones in the sea with the ships. Barbarossa and his brother Arruj has the practice of the battles in the sea and in the lands and most of these fights were conquered by them except for two, the first one resulted in the beheading of Arruj after treachery by the Spaniards in their dealings with him. The second one was by ‘Ibn Alkhadi’ who arranged for them an ambush in a mountains way where Barbarossa lose 750 of his sailors and despite this, he survived with most of them.

In this volume three, Barbarossa continues reciting about the incidents developed especially in Algiers, Tunis, Spain, Italy, and Istanbul in Turkey. The unfinished fights between them and their ultimate enemy, the Spaniards. He talked about the biggest battles never occurred in the seas and oceans with 600 ships on the Spanish side in front of 122 ships from their position. And how he could defeat them despite the huge gap in forces. He talked too about a gigantic attack with 516 ships from the Spaniards' camp including troops from Italy, Belgium, France, Netherlands, and others on Algiers city to occupy it and how his son Hasan could overcome them too with just 600 Turkish warriors and 2000 Arabs volunteers! He described too how he became an admiral over the Ottoman Empire fleet. He reported about Carlos the king of Europe kings and his first admiral Andrea Doria. Their secrets, their attitudes, and behaviors along the story events. How they kill, torture, and burn entire families in Spain and America. He mentioned several times the ottoman empire sultan Suleiman Khan and his great respect for him was expressed in his words. He mentioned also his sea captains and their personal skills.