Bombardment of Algiers (1683)

For other battles in the same place, see Battle of Algiers.
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.
DateJune–July 1683
Location
Algiers
Result Indecisive[1]
Belligerents
 France Regency of Algiers
Commanders and leaders
Royal Standard of the King of France 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.

  1. ^ Ferdinand Ludwig Von Bressler Und Aschenburg (1722). "Die heutigen christlichen Souverainen von Europa.".
  2. ^ Clement Melchior Justin Maxime Fourcheux de Montrond (1860). Les marins les plus celebres. Par ---. 5. ed. Lefort. p. 55.