Subject: corsair / slave raider
Culture: Maghribi Arab, Berber, renegade European
Setting: piracy, Mediterranean/Atlantic 18th-early 19thc
Object: saber
USS Constitution *
"Tunisian Scimitar, c1800 ... Barbary swords had distinctive curved blades,
which were later copied in some American cutlasses including those used by the U.S. Marines."
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