The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admi
Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 George Chambers, 1836
Council of War on board the 'Queen Charlotte', commanded by Lord Exmouth, prior to the Bombardment of Algiers, 26 August 1816 (Nicolaas Baur, 1818)
Panorama of the Battle of Algiers 1816, illustration from panoramic views exhibited in Leicester Square, London, 1818
Sketch showing the positions of the fleet during the bombardment
Barbary slave trade
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The Barbary slave trade involved the capture of an estimated 1.25 million Europeans, then selling them at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states of North Africa during the ear
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
…Europeans by the North African Barbary states. The specific aim of this expedition, however, was to free Christian slaves and to stop the practice of enslaving Europeans in to slavery in Algeria. To this end, it was partially successful, as the Dey of Algiers freed around 3,000 slaves following the bombardment and signed…
The redemption (buying back) of Christian captives by Mercedarian friars in the Barbary states
The Barbary Coast
The slave market of Algiers in the early 17th century
Turk and clergyman with Christian slaves. Jan Luyken, 1684.