Emperor Charles V attempts to capture Algiers, home of the Barbary Pirates, 1541. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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Size: 4415px × 4007px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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