Tunisian-Sicilian War

Tunisian-Sicilian War
	Part of the First Barbary War and the French Revolutionary Wars
Date	June 1801-April 1804
Location	Mediterranean Sea and the Barbary Coast
Result	Sicilian-allied victory End of Tunisian attacks on Sicilian ships and impression on sailors.; Sicilian occupation of Aryanah and La Goulette until 1808.; Sardinian occupation of Bizerte and La Marsa until 1809.; 3,560 captured Christian-European slaves released.;
Belligerents
Kingdom of Sicily; Albanian, German, and Greek mercenaries; Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1802); United Kingdom (from 1804) Naval support:; United States	Beylik of Tunis; Tunisian pirates; Regency of Algiers; Eyalet of Tripolitania (from 1803); Limited support:; Eyalet of Egypt (1802-1803, non-combat support); Morocco (1802-1804)
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand III ; Ezio Graziani ; Leonardo Ambrosio ; Mario Zamperini ; Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia; Giovanni Baratieri ; Horatio Nelson	Hammuda ibn Ali ; Omar el-Shazly ; Mutassim Abdelhafid; Ahmed Hussein as-Sadiq †; Yusuf Farid al-Mualim WIA POW; Abdul Khalid al-Hassan POW ; Mustapha VI ben Ibrahim
Strength
8,450 ; 22 ships	12,700 ; 31 ships
Casualties and losses
2,490 killed or wounded ; 9 ships ; 14 civilians	3,427 killed or wounded ; 16 ships ; 19 civilians

The Tunisian-Sicilian War occurred between June 1801 and April 1804, when Tunisian pirates with Tunisian and Algerian military support attacked and captured several Sicilian ships.^[2] The main purpose was to obtain payment for use of their coast line by the passage of the foreign ships. Sicily was also part of Tunisia before they lost it to the Roman Empire. During this process they captured Christian-European prisoners.^[3]The Sicilians with their Sardinian and British allies defeated the forces of the Tunisian-allied coalition and then occupied Aryanah and La Goulette until 1808.^[4] Many Sicilians & Sardinians remained in La Goulette till the 1950s and some beyond. Sicilian Sardinians and Tunisian are linked by similar DNA, food, culture, and even language.

References[]

↑ "British Slaves on the Barbary Coast". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_02.shtml.
↑ http://daddezio.com/italy/barbary/history.html
↑ Davis, Robert. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800.[1]
↑ Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

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[bbc.co.uk-1] "British Slaves on the Barbary Coast". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_02.shtml.

[2] ttp://daddezio.com/italy/barbary/history.html

[3] Davis, Robert. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800.[1]

[4] Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

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