Tunisian-Sicilian War

Tunisian-Sicilian War
Part of the First Barbary War and the French Revolutionary Wars
DateJune 1801-April 1804
LocationMediterranean Sea and the Barbary Coast
Result

Sicilian-allied victory

  • End of Tunisian attacks on Sicilian ships and impression on sailors.
  • Sicilian occupation of Aryanah and La Goulette until 1808.
  • Sardinian occupation of Bizerte and La Marsa until 1809.
  • 3,560 captured Christian-European slaves released.
Belligerents

Kingdom of Sicily

  • Albanian and Greek mercenaries

 Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1802)

  • German and Swiss mercenaries


 United Kingdom (from 1804)[1]
Supported by:

United States United States

Beylik of Tunis
Cyrenaica Tunisian and Algerian pirates
Regency of Algiers
Eyalet of Tripolitania (from 1803)
Limited support:
Eyalet of Egypt (1802-1803, non-combat support)

Morocco Morocco (1802-1804)
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand III
Ezio Graziani
Leonardo Ambrosio
Mario Zamperini
Kingdom of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
Kingdom of Sardinia Giovanni Baratieri
United Kingdom Horatio Nelson

Hammuda ibn Ali
Omar el-Shazly
Mutassim Abdelhafid
Ahmed Hussein as-Sadiq  †
Cyrenaica Yusuf Farid al-Mualim WIA POW
Cyrenaica Abdul Khalid al-Hassan POW  

Ottoman Empire Mustapha VI ben Ibrahim
Strength
8,450
22 ships		 12,700
31 ships
Casualties and losses
2,490 killed or wounded
9 ships
14 civilians		 3,427 killed or wounded
16 ships
19 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.[2] The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Christian-European slaves for the Muslim-Arab slave market in North Africa.[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "British Slaves on the Barbary Coast".
  2. ↑ http://daddezio.com/italy/barbary/history.html
  3. ↑ Davis, Robert. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800.
  4. ↑ Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

See also

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