Bombardment of Algiers (1683)

Bombardment of Algiers, 1683
	Part of French-Algerian War 1681-88
	; Augustin Burdet, Duquesne liberating the captives after the bombardment of Algiers in 1683, engraving after François-Auguste Biard.
Date	June–July 1683
Location	Algiers
Result	French victory
Belligerents
France	Regency of Algiers
Commanders and leaders
Abraham Duquesne	Baba Hassan; Mezzo Morto
Units involved
17 ships of the line; 3 frigates; 16 galleys ; 7 bomb galiots ; 48 longboats; 18 fluyts; 8 tartans	Unknown

The bombardment of Algiers in 1683 was a French naval operation against the Regency of Algiers during the French-Algerian War 1681–88. It led to the rescue of more than 100 French prisoners,^[2] in some cases after decades of captivity, but the great majority of Christian captives in Algiers were not liberated.

^ Gillian Weiss (11 March 2011). Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Stanford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8047-7784-1.
^ Clement Melchior Justin Maxime Fourcheux de Montrond (1860). Les marins les plus celebres. Par ---. 5. ed. Lefort. p. 55.

[Weiss2011-1] Gillian Weiss (11 March 2011). Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Stanford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8047-7784-1.

[Montrond1860-2] Clement Melchior Justin Maxime Fourcheux de Montrond (1860). Les marins les plus celebres. Par ---. 5. ed. Lefort. p. 55.

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