Algiers expedition (1519)

{{Short description|Joint Spanish-Italian attack on Algiers}}

{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = Algiers expedition (1519)

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| partof = Spanish–Ottoman wars

| date = August 1519

| place = Algiers

| result = Algerian victory [https://books.google.com/books?id=jdlKbZ46YYkC&pg=PA150 A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period]

Jamil M. Abun-Nasr,

Cambridge University Press,

| combatant1 = {{flagicon|Spain|1506}} Spain
{{flagicon image|Bandiera del Regno di Sicilia 4.svg}} Kingdom of Sicily

| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Algiers.jpg}} Sultanate of Algiers

| commander1 = Hugo de Moncada

| commander2 = Hayreddin Barbarossa

| strength1 = 58 ships{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=25}}
23,000 soldiers{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=25}}

| strength2 = Very few

| casualties1 = 20 ships sunk{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=25}}
4,000 killed{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|p=25}}
3,036 captured

| casualties2 = Very few

| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Spanish-Ottoman War}}{{Campaignbox Ottoman-Habsburg Wars}}

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In 1519, a joint Spanish-Italian attack on Algiers was ordered by Charles V and commanded by Hugo of Moncada. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LTNhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT82 Istanbul, Rome and Jerusalem: Titans of the Holy Cities]

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hachette UK This expedition ended in disaster. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zIzkMn61BP0C Algérie et Tunisie]

Gilbert Jacqueton

Hachette,

Charles V ordered Viceroy of Sicily Hugo of Moncada to organise an expedition to conquer Algiers. This attack took place in August 1519. A previous Spanish attack had been defeated in 1516 by Oruç Reis, the brother of Hayreddin Barbarossa.

Hayreddin was ready to oppose this expedition with his army.Lords of the Sea: A [https://books.google.com/books?id=7DlMqY9OQXAC&pg=PA38 History of the Barbary Corsairs]

Alan G. Jamieson

Reaktion Books He successfully routed the Spanish-Italian attack, resulting in shipwreck and massacre. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2sSNPz6Bm0wC&pg=PA42 Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580]

Roger Crowley

Faber & Faber, Hugo de Moncada, managed to escape by hiding among the corpses ashore and 3,036 Spaniards were captured. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tO55DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA429 The City in the Islamic World] (2 vols.)

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Renata Holod, Antillio Petruccioli, André Raymond

BRILL

When Charles V offered ransom for the captured officers, Barbarossa had all of them executed. When Barbarossa was offered another sum of money for the return of the bodies, he had them thrown into the sea so that “If the relatives of any of the dead came to Algiers, they would not know the burial place of their father or brother, nor be able to see the ashes, but only the waves.”