Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairsCurrey, E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton)
History
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs
Currey, E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton)
Africa, North -- History; Pirates
Abdahar, 141.
Abu-Abd-Allah-Mahomed, 40.
Actium, battle of, 189, 199, 366.
Adam, Prince Philippe Villiers L’Isle, Grand Master of the Knights
of St. John, 42, 124, 299.
Adorno, Antony, 103.
Adriatic, coasts of the, 182.
Adrumentum, 251.
“Africa,” town of, position and fortifications, 251,
attacked and taken by Dragut, 257–259;
besieged by Andrea Doria, 265;
captured, 267;
mutiny, 268;
blown up, 268.
Ahmed, Arab, Basha of Algiers, 375,
assassinated, 375.
Albania, coast of, 363, 366.
Al-Burdon, 350.
Alcadaar, Alcaid, 349.
Alcala, Duke of, 311.
Alcala de Henares, 371.
Alcaudite, Count of, his defence of Marzaquivir, 10.
Aldemar, St., Geoffrey de, 291.
Aleppo, 120, 125.
Alexander IV., Pope, 290.
Alexander VI., Pope, 99.
Alexander VII., Pope, initiates the “Alliance of Christian Princes,” 38.
Alexandria, 49.
“Alexandria, The Young Moor of,” defeated, 177,
released, 178.
Alfonso, King of Navarre and Aragon, 291.
Alghieri, Bay of, 235.
Algiers, 2,
attacks on, 30, 88;
captured, 62, 64;
Moorish refugees at, 63;
appeal for help, 66;
surrenders, 89;
mutiny of Janissaries, 355;
treaty with King Charles II., 377.
Ali Ahamed, Admiral of Algiers, 345.
Ali, at the siege of Malta, 328.
Ali Basha, or Occhiali or Uluchali, 6, 14, 22,
present at the conference held by Soliman, 316;
his birthplace, 345;
endures the life of a galley-slave, 345;
becomes a Mussulman, 346;
enters the service of Dragut, 346;
at the siege of Malta, 346;
appointed Viceroy of Tripoli, 347;
Governor of Algiers, 347;
view of his duties,347;
offered the sovereignty of Tunis, 349;
expedition against Hamid, 349;
captures Tunis, 350, 375;
captures galleys of the Knights, 352–355;
at the battle of Lepanto, 363,368–371;
his banner, 368;
captures the _Capitana_, 370;
withdraws and escapes, 371;
returns to Constantinople, 373, 375;
nominated Admiralissimo, 374;
his palace, 375;
ailment of “scald-head,” 375;
death, 376.
Ali Basha, in command of the Turkish forces, 361,
at the battle of Lepanto, 367;
beheaded, 369.
Ali-Chabelli defeated, 180.
Al-Mehedi, his fortifications of “Africa” blown up, 268.
Amalfi, 287.
Ambracian Gulf, 189.
Amburac, Ibrahim, his plot with Dragut, 253, 256.
Ampasta, Rio de, 83.
An, Rev. Frere Pierre d’, on the dangers from the corsairs of
Barbary, 20–22, 27.
Andalusia, 4, 15.
Andior, 246.
Andrade, Captain Diego de, 73.
Andros, island of, 187.
Angelo, Michel, 139.
Aponte, Antonio de, “Electo Mayor” of “Africa,” 268.
Aragon, Alfonso d’, 235.
Aragon, Ferdinand of, acquires Granada, 29,
attempts to recover Naples, 99.
Arba, Francisco d’, 210, 217.
Archipelago, islands of the, 182,
raid on, 187.
Arta, Gulf of, 189, 191, 195, 366.
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