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Battle of Algiers
1682-1683
1682-1683
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Franco-Barbary Wars

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Determined to punish the Barbary pirates of Algiers, Louis XIV of France sent Marquis Abraham Duquesneto besiege Algiers.The North African city was bombarded from 30 August to 8 September 1682, killing about 500, and again in June and August 1683, before Dey Husayn Pasha forced Duquesne to withdraw. Husayn made peace in 1684, giving up captured ships and prisoners.


   
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