| Djidjelli expedition | |||||||
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 French expedition to Djidjelli, 1664 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Regency of Algiers |
 Kingdom of France.svg){kind=small} Knights Hospitaller | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Mohammed Bey |
Louis XIV François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort Charles-Félix de Galéan, Count of Gadagne | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown |
Kingdom of France : 5,650 men[1][2] 14 vessels[2] 8 galleys[2] Knights Hospitaller : 1 battalion[3] 7 galleys | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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500 dead 200 wounded |
2,000 killed 30 cast-iron cannon 15 iron cannon 50 mortars | ||||||
The Djidjelli expedition[4] was a 1664 military expedition by Louis XIV to seize the port of Djidjelli and establish a naval base against the Barbary corsairs. There was a disagreement among the leaders of the expedition as to what its objectives should be. Ultimately the town of Djidjelli was taken easily, but after three months, heavily besieged and deprived of reinforcements by an outbreak of plague, the French abandoned the city and returned home.
- ^ Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algërie et des colonies, (Review of the Orient, of Algeria and the Colonies), Volume 2 (1843); p. 204. read online
- ^ a b c Gérard Poumarède, La France et les Barbaresques (France and the Barbary Coast) in Étienne Taillemite, Denis Lieppe, Rivalités maritimes européennes: xvie – xixe siècles, (European Naval Rivalries: 16th - 19th Centuries), Revue d'histoire maritime no 4 PUPS, PUF, Presses Paris Sorbonne, 2005, p. 133
- ^ Louis XIV 1806, p. 198, note
- ^ also called "expédition de Gigéri ", "expédition de Gigery ", "expédition de Gigelly", "Gergily affair", "Djidjelli affair" or "campaign of Africa"