Early Modern Europe
The Translator's Dangerous Pause in Algiers, 1683
An Ottoman admiral arrived in Algiers to punish a city. The French interpreter chose the wrong moment to go silent—and accidentally started the longest unfinished bombardment in Mediterranean history.
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