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  • He planted a battery of four guns on the point guarding the entrance of Marza Muscat, the other gulf, and the spot has ever since been called Dragut's Point.

    A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • In the armoury is the very suit painted by Caravaggio, by the side of the armour of the noble old La Valette, whose heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Mehedia in Tunis, naval headquarters of Turkish corsair Dragut.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It must be remembered that the inhabitants of Mehedia were by no means enamoured of Dragut-Reis and his piratical followers: King Stork had succeeded to King Log, the part of the former monarch being taken by that singularly capable and ferocious person, Aisa, whose rule was far from being to the liking of the richer and more respectable portion of the townsfolk.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Those things desired by Dragut which he could not obtain by fair means he usually seized by the strong hand; and when he left so hurriedly, and at the same time so unostentatiously, he had already entered into a plot with Ibrahim Amburac.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • But as the hour came the spirit of the corsair rose to answer the challenge: it was one thing to get Dragut-Reis into a trap, it was quite another to keep him there.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • He accompanied his master to the siege of Malta, and when Dragut was slain the

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Dragut arrived at a commanding position they were, so to speak, officially recognised as a fighting asset of the Sublime Porte; and, as we have seen, the Sultan did not hesitate to lend his picked troops, the Janissaries, to the corsairs when engaged in their ordinary piratical business.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Giving himself and those who had hitherto been engaged time to breathe and recover themselves, Dragut waited while the noise of the strife died down, and nought was heard but the roar of the flames and the crash of the burning buildings.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • At dead of night Dragut assembled his forces, and before morning every galley, galeasse, and brigantine had been dragged across the island and launched in the sea on the opposite side.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

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