The original merchant farmers were all from Asia, not Africa.

a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.

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The United States and North African Berber Muslims fight the First Barbary War from 1801 to 1805 in an effort to halt Barbary pirates' attacks upon American merchant shipping.

The USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") launches as part of the U.S. Navy in 1797 and sails to the Mediterranean Sea to protect American merchant vessels from Barbary pirates.

Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe America was named, was an Italian merchant.

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This is a very bad merchant; we should put it on the blacklist.

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So I can only say that this merchant is too deceitful,

Well, it can't be proven that he invented it, per se. But the first written instance of the name is found in the Bard's 1596 play The Merchant of Venice: Shylock's daughter, an Anglicization of the bi

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Half of all British merchant shipping was sunk by German U-Boats

At the start of the war, US President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality—a position supported by a majority of Americans. On April 6, 1917, however, the United States, now galvanized for war by the “Zi

Allied merchant shipping losses were just 1 per cent

However, right up until the spring of 1944, the priority for manpower in the UK was not the navy, RAF, army, or even the merchant navy, but the Ministry of Aircraft Production. In the war, Britain alo

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