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THE BARBARY PIRATES
The pirates were dealt a severe blow when a new
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814
When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers
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