Bombardment of Algiers (1784)

For other battles in the same place, see Battle of Algiers.

2nd Bombardment of Algiers
Part of the Spanish–Algerian war (1775–1785)

1784 depiction of the first day of bombardment by José López Llanos
Date12 July 1784
Location
Algiers, Regency of Algiers
Result Algerian victory[1][2]
Belligerents
 Regency of Algiers
Commanders and leaders
Antonio Barceló
Jose de Mazarredo		 Muhammad V
Ali Agha
Strength
9 ships of the line
11 frigates
14 xebecs
90 smaller warships[3]		 4,000 volunteers
70 galiots and gunboats[3]
Casualties and losses
1 felucca sunk
1 gunboat destroyed
53 killed
64 wounded[4]		 Most of the vessels in the harbour sunk

The 2nd Bombardment of Algiers took place between 12 and 21 July 1784. A joint Spanish-Neapolitan-Maltese-Portuguese fleet commanded by the Spanish Admiral Antonio Barceló bombarded the city, which was the main base of the Barbary corsairs, with the aim of forcing them to interrupt their activities.[5] The second bombardment followed a similarly failed expedition the preceding year.[6]

  1. ^ Grammont, Henri Delmas de (2002). Histoire d'Alger sous la domination turque : 1515-1830. Saint-Denis: Bouchene. p. 328. ISBN 2-912946-53-0. OCLC 401732039.
  2. ^ Black 2019, p. 59.
  3. ^ a b Don Antonio Barceló, el "Capitán Toni".
  4. ^ Fernández Duro, cap. XIX, pg. 346
  5. ^ Sánchez Doncel pg. 277
  6. ^ Terki Hassaine, Ismet (30 June 2004). "Oran au xviiie siècle : du désarroi à la clairvoyance politique de l'Espagne". Insaniyat / إنسانيات. Revue algérienne d'anthropologie et de sciences sociales (in French) (23–24): 197–222. doi:10.4000/insaniyat.5625. ISSN 1111-2050.