Conquest of Tunis

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Conquest of Tunis
Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
Date 1535
Location Tunis
Result Ottomans lose Tunis
Combatants
Image:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Empire of Charles V
Image:Flag of Genoa.svg Republic of Genoa
Image:Flag Portugal (1495).svg Portugal
Image:Vatican naval flag.JPG Papal States
Image:Flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.svg Order of Malta 		Image:Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1453-1844).svg Ottoman Empire
Commanders
Image:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Image:Flag of New Spain.svg Álvaro de Bazán
Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Sicily.svg Luis de Requesens
Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Naples.svg García de Toledo
Image:Flag of Genoa.svg Andrea Doria
Image:Flag Portugal (1495).svg Infante Luís, Duke of Beja
Image:Vatican naval flag.JPG Virginio Ursino 		Image:Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1453-1844).svg Khayr ad-Din Barbarossa
Strength
Total men: 60,000
Ships:
Image:Flag of New Spain.svg 207 Spanish ships[1]
Image:Flag of Flanders.svg 60 Flemish hulks
Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Sicily.svg 10 Sicilian galleys
Image:Flag of the Kingdom of Naples.svg 6 Napolitan galleys
Image:Flag of Genoa.svg 19 galleys
Image:Flag Portugal (1495).svg 1 galleon, 20 caravels
Image:Vatican naval flag.JPG 8 galleys
Image:Flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.svg 4 galleys 		Unknown
Casualties
Many fell to dysentry At least 30,000 civilians killed
Ottoman-Habsburg wars
Mohacs - Campaign of Ferdinand I - Balkan campaign of Suleiman - Vienna - Little War - Koszeg - Tunis - Osijek - Preveza - Campaign of Suleiman (1543) - Eger - Malta - Szigetvar - Lepanto (1571) - Thirteen Years War - Keresztes - Saint Gotthard - Vienna (1683) - Mohacs (1687) - Slankamen - Zenta - Peterwardein - Grocka


The Conquest of Tunis was an attack on Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire, by the Holy Roman Empire in 1535.

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[edit] The Battle

In 1535, The Ottomans under Khair ad-Din began attacking Christian shipping in the Mediterranean from a base in Algiers. That year Tunisia was captured to act as a supply base for further naval campaigns in the region. Charles V, one of the most powerful men of Europe at the time assembled a huge army of some 60,000 soldiers to drive the Ottomans from the region. Protected by a Genoese fleet, Charles V destroyed Barbarossa's fleet[citation needed] and after a costly yet successful siege at La Goleta, captured Tunis. The resulting massacre of the city left an estimated 30,000 dead.

The siege demonstrated at the time the power projection of the Habsburg dynasties at the time; Charles V had under his control much of southern Italy, Sicily, Spain, the Americas, Austria and lands in Germany. Furthermore, he was Holy Roman Emperor and had de jure control over much of Germany as well.

[edit] Aftermath

The Ottomans responded by recapturing the city in 1574. However the Ottoman hold on Tunis was undermined by the regular raids of the Beyliks, operating as independent pirates. Consequently, raiding in the Mediterranean continued until the French subjugated the region as a protectorate three centuries later.

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ 15 galleys of the Mediterranean Squadron, 42 ships of the Cantabrian fleet, 150 ships of the Málaga Squadron

[edit] References

  • Battle: a Visual Journey Through 5000 Years of Combat. Grant, R. G. 2005
  • La Marina Cántabra. Ballesteros-Beretta, Antonio. 1968
  • [www.cervantesvirtual.com Cervantes Virtual]es:La Jornada de Túnez

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