Attack on Algiers, 1816 Flashcards
How many Europeans had been captured by pirates and slavers between the 16th and 19th century at Algeirs and other North-African ports?
Over 1m.
What were barbary state rulers (rulers of North-African port areas) known as?
What had the royal navy been able to do to them since the 17th century?
However, who was still under threat?
Beys.
Intimidate them into leaving British shipping alone.
Smaller powers without great fleets.
Who was the expedition sent to North Africa led by?
Admiral Pellew.
He secured treaties with which beys?
What was he backed by?
Beys of Tunis, Tripoli, and Algiers.
A naval squadron.
However, what happened on the Algerian island of Bona before Pellew returned to England?
200 captured Corsicans, Sardinians, and Sicilians were massacred.
Therefore, what did he return with the same year?
How many vessels were sunk?
A larger fleet.
40.
The Bey of Algeirs __________ the next day, repaying over £__,____ in ransom and freeing _,___ slaves.
Capitulated, £80,000, 3,000.
What continued after the 1816 attack?
Therefore, when did Britain bombard Algiers again?
Sporadic raiding.
1820.
What did it show that Britain was willing to use?
The might of its navy to protect foreigners under British protection.
The navy then assumed the role of what?
It assumed this role until when?
What was this period known as?
World’s police force.
The Pax Britannica.
