Departure of the English and French from Genoa in 1390 to chastise the Barbary Corsairs.

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Departure of the English and French from Genoa in 1390 to chastise the Barbary Corsairs. The personage in the place of honour in the rowing boat is believed to be the Duke of Bourbon. The vessel in the centre contains several French knights, in that on the left is Henry de Beaufort with English knights and squires. The Mahdian Crusade, aka the Barbary Crusade or Crusade of Barbary, was a Franco-Genoese military expedition in 1390 that led to the siege of Mahdia. After the Froissart MS in the British Museum. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published 1901.

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