Sack of Madeira

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Sack of Madeira
Date1617
Location
Madeira, Portugal
Result • Capture of Madeira[1][2]
• 1,200 enslaved[3][4]
Belligerents
Portugal Portuguese Empire Flag of Ottoman Algiers.svg Regency of Algiers
Strength
Unknown 8 vessels[5]
800 men[5]
Casualties and losses
1,200 enslaved Unknown

The “Sack of Madeira” occurred in 1617 when Algerian pirates sacked the Island and took 1,200 inhabitants as slaves.[4][5][6]

The Algerians had established a base on the Islands of Cape Verde from which they operated against ships in the Atlantic.[4][7]

In 1617 the Algerians arrived in Madeira with 8 vessels and 800 men.[5] They plundered the Island and enslaved 1,200 inhabitants.[7] The Algerians burned the archives and had sacked much even the church bells.[8][9][4] It is also said that they had emptied the Portuguese Island of Porto Santo enslaving 663 inhabitants.[10]

The activity of the Algerian pirates only seemed to increase later sacking Baltimore in Ireland as well as the famous raid in Iceland.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Historic Ships Rupert Holland BoD – Books on Demand,
  2. ^ KUKLALARIN EFENDİSİ: KADERİN TOHUMLARI Namık GÜLSÜN Author House,
  3. ^ Etudes algériennes: la course, l'esclavage et la redemption à Alger Henri Delmas de Grammont Daupeley-Gouverneur,
  4. ^ a b c d The Cambridge Historical Journal, Volume 8 Cambridge University Press,
  5. ^ a b c d White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830 K. Bekkaoui Springer,
  6. ^ The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Volume II Fernand Braudel University of California Press,
  7. ^ a b c The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England Adrian Tinniswood Random House,
  8. ^ Brown's Madeira, Canary Islands, and Azores: A Practical and Complete Guide for the Use of Tourists and Invalids A. Samler Brown Simpkins, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent,
  9. ^ War and Society in the Seventh Century Sir George Norman Clark CUP Archive
  10. ^ The Corsairs’ Longest Voyage: The Turkish Raid in Iceland 1627 ‪Þorsteinn Helgason BRILL,
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