Tunisian-Sicilian War
Tunisian-Sicilian War | |||||||
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Part of the First Barbary War and the French Revolutionary Wars | |||||||
British sailors boarding an Algerine pirate ship | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
10,450 22 ships |
18,700 34 ships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
2,490 killed or wounded 9 ships 15 civilians |
4,776 killed or wounded 54 pirates executed 16 ships 9 civilians |
The Tunisian-Sicilian War occurred between June 1801 and April 1804, when Tunisian pirates with Tunisian and Algerian military support attacked and captured several Sicilian ships.[4] The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Christian-European slaves for the Muslim-Arab slave market in North Africa.[5] The Sicilians with their Sardinian and British allies defeated the forces of the Tunisian-allied coalition and then occupied Aryanah and La Goulette until 1808.[6]
References
- ↑ "British Slaves on the Barbary Coast".
- ↑ A 44-gun Algerian corsair appeared at Río de la Plata in 1720. Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y de León, Madrid, 1902, Vol. VI, p. 185
- ↑ Peter Madsen, "Danish slaves in Barbary", Islam in European Literature Conference, Denmark Archived November 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://daddezio.com/italy/barbary/history.html
- ↑ Davis, Robert. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800.
- ↑ Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.