LEPANTO
How Ali Basha fought at the battle of Lepanto: his
subsequent career—Conclusion.
Lepanto, the last battle of first-class importance in which the
Sea-wolves bore a leading part, is memorable in many ways. It is one
of the most sanguinary which was ever fought, the element of personal
hatred between the combatants, to which we have alluded more than
once, being singularly in evidence on this occasion. As we have said,
this campaign was brought about at the initiative of the Venetians,
and an incident which occurred not long before the battle exacerbated
the feelings with which the Turks were regarded by the Christians
to the point of madness. The city of Famagusta, in Cyprus, had been
captured by that Mustafa of whom we heard so much at the siege of
Malta. The Venetian defenders made an honourable capitulation, but
when the four principal Venetian captains were brought before Mustafa,
that general caused three of them to be beheaded on the spot; the
fourth, a noble and gallant gentleman who had been responsible for the
magnificent defence of the city entrusted to his charge, he caused to
be flayed alive in the market-square. He then had the skin stuffed
with straw, and, with this ghastly trophy nailed to the prow of his
galley, returned in triumph to Constantinople. Bragadino, the defender
of Famagusta, did not die in vain; his terrible fate excited such a
passion of anger in the whole of the armada of Don John that each
individual of which it was composed felt that the sacrifice of his
own life would be but a small thing if it only led to the destruction
of such fiends as those against whom they were arrayed.
[Illustration: DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA.]
Lepanto was a magnificent triumph for the arms of Christendom, and
taught a much-needed lesson to Europe that the Ottoman Turk was not
invincible upon the sea; it was not, however, an interesting battle
from the point of view of the student of war and its combinations. Of
all the high officers in command on that memorable day there was only
one who displayed real generalship and a proper appreciation of the
tactical necessities of the situation; that officer was Ali Basha,
the leader of the Sea-wolves. The account of the battle is somewhat
obscured by the fact that on the side of the Moslems the name of the
Ottoman Commander-in-Chief was also “Ali”; in order to avoid confusion
in this narration, we shall allude to the Basha of Algiers by the name
given to him by the Christians, “Occhiali.”
It was on Sunday, October 7th, 1571, that the Christian fleet weighed
anchor from Cephalonia and stood southwards along the Albanian coast,
which is here fringed with rocky islets. The right wing was commanded
by John Andrea Doria, the left wing by the Provéditeur Barbarigo, the
centre, or “battle,” as it was called, by Don John in person, who
had on the one side of him Mark Antony Colonna, the General of the
Galleys of the Pope, and on the other that fiery veteran Sebastian
Veniero, the commander of the Venetians. Here also were stationed the
Prince of Parma, nephew to Don John, Admiral of Savoy; Duke Urbino,
Admiral of Genoa; the Admiral of Naples, and the Commandeur of Castile.
The reserve, under the command of the Marquis of Santa Cruz, consisted
of thirty-five galleys. Immediately in rear of the _Real_, or royal
galley of Don John, was that of the Grand Commander Requesens. The
number of seamen, soldiers, officers, and galley-slaves in the fleet
amounted to over eighty thousand persons; twenty-nine thousand infantry
had been embarked, of which number nineteen thousand were Spaniards.
Opposed to the Christians on this day was a Turkish fleet which had
on board no less than one hundred and twenty thousand men embarked in
two hundred and fifty galleys, without counting an innumerable host of
smaller vessels.
[Illustration: SEBASTIAN VENIERO.
Inset, portraits of Don John and Pope Pius V. Heroic statue of Don John
dominating Christian and Turkish Fleets. The breath of the Almighty
destroying the Turkish fleet at Lepanto.]
The authorities on whose accounts of the battle this description is
based are Prescott, the famous historian; P. Daru, a member of the
Académie Française, who wrote an exhaustive _Histoire de Venise_ and Don
Cayetano Rosell, member of the Spanish Academy, who is responsible for
an exposition of the subject, known as _Historia del combate naval de
Lepanto_. From a comparison of the works of these eminent men one fact
emerges with great clearness, which is that the battle of Lepanto was
an indiscriminate mêlée which was decided by some of the most desperate
fighting ever recorded, but which depended hardly at all upon the
tactical abilities of the men in chief command. It is true that we are
told Don John issued written instructions to the commander of each
ship, but we are left in the dark as to what these instructions were,
while at the same time we discover that in his line of battle, which in
the first instance appears to have been that of “single line ahead,”
the galleys of all nationalities were inextricably mixed up; making it
thereby impossible for the Papal, Spanish, and Venetian commanders to
deal, as they should have done, exclusively with their own men. On the
other hand, Occhiali kept together the squadron of the Sea-wolves; he
outgeneralled and had all but defeated John Andrea Doria, when the end
came and he was obliged to retreat.
We are, however, anticipating. Don John passed down his own line in a
light “fregata” giving a few words of exhortation and advice to each
ship under his command. If the bastard brother of the King of Spain did
not exhibit any large measure of ability as a leader on this occasion,
he was perhaps none the less the right man in the right place, as
he had about him so winning a way, he was so striking and gallant a
figure, that the hearts of all under his command went out to him. The
seamen and soldiers of the great armada greeted him with enthusiastic
shouts of delight as he bade them remember in whose cause it was that
they fought. The last of the Knights-errant must have made a brave show
as he passed down that line four miles in length, the sun shining on
his damascened armour, and his yellow curls streaming out from beneath
his helmet.
Soon after sunrise the Turkish fleet was descried sailing towards the
Christians, in such apparently overwhelming force that several of the
Spanish commanders represented to Don John that it would be imprudent
to risk a battle. To his honour be it recorded that he replied he had
come out to fight the Turks and that the time for talk was now over. He
then hoisted all his banners, and the executive signal for the combat
to begin was given by displaying at his mainmast head the sacred banner
blessed by the Pope. As this standard floated out upon the breeze there
went up a great shout in unison from all that were under the command of
Don John. The scene of the combat was that area of the Ionian Sea which
is enclosed on the east by the coasts of Albania and Morea and on the
west by the islands of Ithaca and Cephalonia, Just to the northward, at
the entrance to the Gulf of Arta, sixteen hundred years before had been
fought the battle of Actium between Antony and Octavius; the same spot
had witnessed, in 1538, the memorable battle of Prevesa between Andrea
Doria and Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa.
From the point of view of the seaman, who is naturally anxious
to discover the dispositions of their fleets made by the rival
Commanders-in-Chief, Lepanto is an almost hopeless puzzle. As far as
can be gathered, however, it was that the two armadas approached one
another in what is known as “line ahead,” each ship being immediately
astern of its next ahead in one long continuous line; and that,
when they got within striking distance, these lines turned so that
they formed “line abreast,” when each ship, having turned at right
angles, simultaneously the line advances abreast, the ships forming
it being broadside to broadside.
When the Turks discovered the allies they were issuing from between the
islets and the shore. Seeing John Andrea Doria moving to the right,
they judged that he was executing a turning movement with the object
of escaping to the northwards, from whence he had come; they were, at
the time, unable to see the rest of the fleet, which was hidden by the
land. With sound tactical judgment they accordingly advanced to attack
the allies before they should have time to issue from the strait. They
were, however, too far off to accomplish this, and, by the time they
arrived within striking distance, the Christian fleet had cleared the
strait and was ready for them, “drawn up for battle,” says Monsieur
Daru, which is somewhat vague in describing the disposition of a fleet.
What is certain, however, is that in advance of the galleys of Don
John were six great galeasses, which were armed with guns of immensely
superior power to anything which could be mounted in galleys. As the
Turks advanced to the attack these vessels opened fire, and did so much
execution that Ali, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, ordered his line to
open out and thus avoid their fire. Whatever formation the fleet was
in at the time—which was, as far as we can gather, “line abreast”—this
opening-out process, to avoid the galeasses, threw it into hopeless
confusion. The Turkish right wing, which was hugging the coast, and
was the first to come into action, passed on in an endeavour to turn
the left wing of the allies. While this manoeuvre was in progress
Ali, the Capitan-Basha of the Turks, arrived in his vessel opposite
to the royal galley of Don John. At the masthead of the galley of the
Capitan-Bashaw floated the sacred standard of the Ottomans. This, the
ancient banner of the Caliphs, was covered with texts from the Koran,
and had upon it the name of Allah emblazoned no less than twenty-eight
thousand nine hundred times in letters of gold. “It was,” says
Prescott, “the banner of the Sultan, having passed from father to son
since the foundation of the dynasty, and was never seen in the field
unless the Grand Seigneur or his lieutenant was there in person.” Ali,
the Commander-in-Chief, a favourite of the Sultan, had been entrusted
with this most precious of all the possessions of the Padishah, as an
incentive to him and all under his command to fight their hardest to
do honour to the Prophet, and to prevent this symbol of their religion
from falling into the hands of the Christian. Ali, like Don John, was
young, and burning to distinguish himself; accordingly, as soon as the
ships of the two leaders came opposite to each other neither regarded
any enemy save his rival Commander-in-Chief. Ali drove his great galley
straight on board of the vessel of Don John, and a most obstinate
conflict ensued. Veniero and Colonna hastened to the assistance of
their chief, who was sore beset.
The combat now became general, and, as has been said, was for the most
part nothing but a melee, in which each ship sought out the nearest
of her foes and closed with her. For some time the fight went hard
with Don John; time and again the galley of the Moslem leader was
boarded, but on each occasion the Spaniards were hurled back upon
their own decks. Loredano and Malipier, two Venetian captains, fell
upon seven Turkish galleys which were hastening to reinforce the attack
on Don John, and sank one of them. They then fought with such fury and
resolution with the six that remained that, although both captains were
killed, it was conceded that they had saved their general, entirely
altered the complexion of the battle in their neighbourhood, and
facilitated the capture of the Turkish admiral. The determined conduct
of the two Venetians allowed the Spanish division to close in on the
Turkish flagship, which, after an heroic resistance, was captured,
principally because there were practically none left alive to fight.
The head of Ali was struck off by a Spanish soldier, the banner of
the Moslems was replaced by the flag of the Cross, the head of Ali
on a pike being exhibited in derision above it. The conquerors seem
to have seen no incongruity in this performance. The lowering of the
sacred standard of the Capitan-Basha had a disheartening effect upon
the Turks; they knew by this that their Commander-in-Chief was dead
and his ship captured, the result being that the resistance of the
Ottomans began to weaken. Then thirty galleys took to flight from the
neighbourhood of the Christian flagship; so hotly were they pursued
that they ran on shore, the crews swimming or wading to the beach and
making off inland.
On the right of the Christian line things had not been going so
propitiously for them. Here Occhiali had managed, by his apparently
persistent attempts to outflank John Andrea Doria, to decoy that
commander away from his supports and from the main body of the
Christians. This tactical manoeuvre of the corsair was successful;
having drawn off some fifteen of the Christian galleys, he suddenly
flung the whole of his greatly superior force into the gap and
surrounded them. These galleys were Spanish, Venetian, and Maltese,
and, although they offered a most vigorous resistance, they were mostly
destroyed or captured. Doria, in spite of all his efforts, was on this
day both outgeneralled and outfought: the Sea-wolves, under their
grim leader, manoeuvring for position, obtaining it, and then falling
like a thunderbolt on the foe. They were all brave men at Lepanto on
this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king,
in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who,
during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop
like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him
the opportunity for which he watched. It was the old story of “the
veritable man of the sea” pitted against gallant soldiers fighting on
an unfamiliar element. And yet it was against the best seaman on the
Christian side that Occhiali pitted himself on this stricken field;
and none can deny that with him rested such honour as was gained by
the Turks on this day, the day which broke up for ever the idea of the
invincibility of the Ottomans on the water. It needs not to say, to
those who have read the story of the siege of Malta, how the Knights
comported themselves in the battle; and yet Occhiali captured the
_Capitana_, or principal galley of the Order, He was towing her out of
action, a prize, when the Marquis of Santa Cruz bore down upon him with
the reserve. By this time the battle was lost; the Moslems were in full
retreat.
The corsair recognised that he could do no more: sullenly he cast
off the tow, and, forming up some thirty of his galleys, still in a
condition to navigate, stood boldly through the centre of where the
battle had once raged, and escaped. The _Capitana_ of Malta had been
taken; and to the Sultan did Occhiali present the great standard of
Saint John, as an earnest of his achievement.
Bernardino de Escalente, in his work _Diálogos del arte militar_, printed
in Seville in 1583, says that the Captain Ojeda, of the galley _Guzmana_,
recaptured the _Capitana_ of Malta; and that, in recognition thereof,
“the Religion” pensioned him for life. Ojeda, it is to be presumed, was
under the orders of the Marquis of Santa Cruz during the battle.
There remains one incident connected with the battle of Lepanto which
must be told. In the _Marquesa_ galley, in the division of Doria, was
lying in his bed sick of a fever a young man twenty-four years of age;
a Spaniard of Alcala de Henares, “de padres hidalgos y honrados,” we
are told, although these parents were poor. When this young man heard
that a battle was imminent he rose from his bed and demanded of his
captain, Francisco San Pedro, that he should be placed in the post of
the greatest danger. The captain, and others, his friends, counselled
him to remain in his bed. “Señores,” replied the young man, “what would
be said of Miguel de Cervantes should he take this advice? On every
occasion up to this day on which his enemies have offered battle to his
Majesty I have served like a good soldier; and today I intend to do so
in spite of this sickness and fever.” He was given command of twelve
soldiers in a shallop, and all day was to be seen where the combat
raged most fiercely. He received two wounds in the chest and another
which cost him the loss of his left hand. To those to whom he proudly
displayed them in after-years he was accustomed to say, “wounds in the
face or the chest are like stars which guide one through honour to the
skies.” Of him the chronicler says: “He continued the rest of his life
with honourable memory of this wonderful occurrence, and, although he
lost the use of his left hand, it added to the glory of his right.” How
glorious was that right hand is known to all readers of _El Ingenioso
Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_.
The losses at the battle of Lepanto are something so prodigious that
imagination boggles at them. It is said that the Christians lost five
thousand men and the Turks no less than thirty thousand. Enormous as
these numbers are, they represent probably a very conservative estimate
of the loss. The Turks lost two hundred vessels, and when we recollect
the number of men embarked on board of the sixteenth-century galleys we
can see that the numbers are by no means exaggerated, especially as no
quarter was given on either side. When the Captain Ojeda recaptured the
battered wreck which had been the _Capitana_ of Malta, we are told that
on board of her were three hundred dead Turks; if this were the cost of
the capture of one galley we need not be surprised at the total.
With the results to Europe of this amazing battle we have nothing to
do in this book. That which it demonstrated, as far as the Sea-wolves
were concerned, was that they still remained the most competent
seamen and sea-fighters in the Mediterranean, and that the legend
of the invincibility of the Ottomans at sea rested on what had been
accomplished during a long period of years by these insatiable pirates
and magnificent warriors.
That which the fighting Pontiff, Pius V., said when he heard of the
victory is in character with everything which history has told us of
this remarkable occupant of the chair of Saint Peter. It was short but
very much to the point, consisting of the one sentence, “Fuit homo
misus a Deo cui nomen erat Joannes.”
In a collection of epitaphs printed in Colonia in 1623 (and edited by
one Franciscus Swertius) is one in Spanish by an anonymous author on
Don John of Austria. In this, which takes the form of question and
answer, it is asked of him “who with so much real glory lies so humbly
’neath this stone,” what it is that Spain can do for him, what temple
or what statue can she raise to his honour. To this the hero is made
to reply that “My temple is found in my works, my statue has been my
fame.” This is not only a pretty conceit, but it is very substantially
true when we think of the place in history which this man attained.
It remains to speak of the future career of Ali Basha after his
experiences at Lepanto. He now returned to Constantinople, where he
found that the bitter complaints of the Janissaries concerning their
lack of pay had preceded him; this must have been annoying, as by this
time so insignificant a circumstance had probably escaped his memory.
His old friend and patron Piali Basha was still in power; the Basha
used his influence, and the corsair laid at the feet of the Sultan the
great Standard of Saint John captured by him from the Knights—which
was the only trophy which came to Constantinople from that disastrous
battle; and in consequence we are told that “instead of reprimands he
was loaded with caresses and applauses.”
There was in Ali the same dauntless quality of never knowing when
he was beaten which had distinguished Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa. His
exploits at Lepanto had secured him the high favour of the Sultan,
which he used in a manner most grateful to that sovereign by
approaching him with a request that he might be allowed to fit out
another fleet to revenge himself on the Christians. The Sultan acceded
to his request, and such diligence did he use that in June 1572, only
eight months after the crushing defeat of the Turks, Ali took the sea
with two hundred and fifty galleys besides smaller vessels. So powerful
had he now become that Selim nominated him as his Admiralissimo,
allowing him also to retain the Bashalic of Algiers. With his new fleet
he sought out the allies once more, finding them at anchor in a port in
the Morea. He lay outside the harbour defying them to come out, which
they refused to do—“but they parted without bloody noses”—is Morgan’s
comment. Haedo attributes this inertia on the part of the allies to
dissension among their leaders; but, however that may have been, Ali
gained almost as much favour with the Sultan as if he had defeated them
in a pitched battle. “But these are the judgments of God and things
ordered by His divine providence and infinite wisdom,” says Haedo. The
connection is somewhat hard to establish.
In 1573 the Bashalic of Algiers passed into the hands of Arab Ahmed,
and in this same year Don John of Austria recaptured Tunis from the
Turks. Ali, with a fleet of two hundred and fifty galleys and forty
smaller vessels, recaptured it again in a siege lasting forty days,
and once more returned to Constantinople in triumph with thousands
of Spanish captives. He was yet to live some years to harass the
Christians, against whom he ever displayed a most inveterate rancour.
In 1576 he set out from Constantinople with sixty galleys and ravaged
the Calabrian coast, where he had been born. In 1578, the Janissaries
of Algiers having assassinated Arab Ahmed the Basha, he was sent to
chastise them, which he did with a heavy hand.
Ali was never married, and left no descendants; in the later years
of his life he built himself a sumptuous palace some five miles from
Constantinople, and no man in all the realm save the Sultan himself
was so great a man as the Calabrian renegado, the unknown waif from
Southern Italy who possessed neither name nor kindred. He was tall and
robust in stature, but all his life suffered from “scald-head”; for a
definition of which ailment we may refer the curious to the dictionary.
He possessed, for a chieftain and a fighting man, the disadvantage
of a voice so hoarse as to be inaudible at a few paces distant.
In default of offspring he maintained at his charges five hundred
corsairs, whom he called his children. He died in the year 1580, and
with him what has been called the “Grand Period of the Moslem Corsairs”
in this book may be said to have come to an end.
By the men whose deeds have been here chronicled the pirate States of
Northern Africa were established; and, as we have seen, they maintained
an unceasing warfare against all that was mightiest in Christendom,
aided and abetted by the Sultans of Constantinople. In the sixteenth
century the Sea-wolves had this at least to recommend them, that they
feared neither King nor Kaiser, albeit these great ones of the earth
were bent on their destruction. Villains as they were, they were none
the less men to be feared, men in whom dwelt wonderful capabilities
of leadership. Such, however, was not the case with those by whom
they were succeeded; and the great and civilised nations of the world
tolerated for centuries in their midst a race of savage barbarians
whose abominable insolence and fiendish cruelty were only equalled
by their material weakness and military impotence. Algiers, Tunis,
and Tripoli became recognised States, and the Great Powers degraded
themselves by actually accrediting diplomatic agents to the “Courts” of
these people.
“The Algerines are robbers, and I am their chief,” was the remark made
by the Dey of Algiers to the English Consul in 1641, and the man spoke
the plain unvarnished truth. Yet at this time the Algerines had no more
than sixty-five ships, and no organisation which could have held out
for twenty-four hours against such attacks as had been successfully
resisted on many occasions in the previous century.
On April 10th, 1682 (O.S.), “Articles of peace and commerce between the
most serene and mighty Prince Charles II., by the Grace of God King of
Great Britain, etc., and the most illustrious (_sic_) Lord, the Bashaw,
Dey, and Aga, Governor of the famous city of Algiers in Barbary,”
were concluded by “Arthur Herbert, Esquire, Admiral of His Majesty’s
Fleet.” It need hardly be said that such a treaty as this was not worth
the paper on which it was written; that the barbarians by whom it was
signed were as ignorant as they were unprincipled, and that the only
argument which they understood at that, or any other time, was that of
the right of the strongest.
When we of the present day read of the deeds of the corsairs we are
filled with horror, we fail to understand how such things could have
been tolerated, we seek for some explanation. When we hear of a
“League of Christian Princes,” and find that all its members could
accomplish was to turn their arms the one against the other, we are
even still more puzzled. What was it, then, that lay at the root of
this problem? The answer would appear to be in the ethical standpoint
of the sixteenth century. We are so accustomed in the present day to
hear of the rights of man that we are apt to forget that, in the time
of Barbarossa, of Dragut, of Charles V., and the Medicean Popes such a
thing did not exist, and the only rights possessed by the common man
were those vouchsafed to him by his sovereign lord. We have also
to take another factor into consideration, which is that what we call
“humanity” simply did not exist, the result being that the raids of
the Sea-wolves were not judged by the great ones of the earth from the
standpoint of the amount of suffering which they inflicted, but in what
manner these proceedings affected the wealth and power of the lord of
the territory which had been despoiled. So differently was society
constituted in those days that the very victims acquiesced more or less
meekly in their fate, each one unconsciously voicing that most pathetic
saying of the Russian peasant that “God is high and the Czar is far
away.”
The fact of the intolerable lot of the common man in these times helps
us to understand one thing which otherwise would be an insoluble
problem: which was, why did Christian soldiers so often become
renegadoes and fight for the corsairs under the banner of those who
were the fiercest and most irreconcilable foes of themselves and their
kindred? The life of the common soldier or sailor did not offer many
advantages; it was generally a short and anything but a merry one, and
the thing by which it was most profoundly affected was capture by the
corsairs.
When this happened he became either a “gallerian,” rowing out his
heart on the benches of the Moslem galleys, or he festered in some
noisome dungeon in Algiers, Oran, or Tlemcen. For him, however, there
was always one avenue of escape open: he had but to acknowledge that
Mahomet was the Prophet of God and the prison doors would fly open,
or the shackles be knocked off the chain which bound him to the hell of
the rower’s bench. Many of the Christian captives had really nothing
to bind them to the faith of their fathers—neither home nor lands,
wealth nor kindred, and they were doubtless dazzled by the amazing
success which accompanied the arms of the leaders of the pirates. Is
it wonderful, then, that such men in such an age should grasp at the
chance of freedom and throw in their lot with their captors?
It was treachery, it was apostasy, and no amount of sophistry can
prove it to have been otherwise; but the man who would sit in judgment
in the present day must try to figure to himself what the life of
a galley-slave meant—a life so horrible and so terrible that it is
impossible, in the interest of decency, to set down a tithe of what it
really was.
We who in the present day sit in judgment upon the virtues and vices of
a bygone age can, in the ordered security of our modern civilisation,
see many things which were hidden from our forefathers, even as in
another three hundred years our descendants will be able to point the
finger of scorn at the mistakes which we are now committing. We have
seen how it was that the pirate States arose; we have seen also how, in
future generations, they were allowed to abide. We cannot, in common
honesty, echo the words already quoted of the historian that “these
are the judgments of God, and things ordered by His divine providence
and infinite wisdom,” neither can we acquit the heirs of the ages for
that slackness which prevented them from doing their duty; we have,
however, to ask ourselves this question, that, had it fallen to our
own lot to deal with the problem of the extermination of the pirates,
should we have done better?
One word in conclusion. That which they did has been set down here; the
record, however, is not complete, as many of their acts of cruelty,
lust, and oppression are not fitted for publication in the present day.
It has been said, with truth, that no man is much better or much worse
than in the age in which he lives; and to hold the scales evenly—if one
were tempted to shock contemporary opinion by too literal a transcript
of all that was done by the corsairs—it would also be necessary to cite
the reprisals of their Christian antagonists. It has seemed better to
leave such things unchronicled: to present, with as much fidelity as
possible, the public lives and acts of these troublers of the peace of
the sixteenth century. Looking back, as we do, over three hundred and
fifty years, and judging as fairly as is possible, it would seem that
there is little which can be said in their favour.
But we may at least concede that, no matter how infamous were the
Barbarossas, Dragut, and Ali, they proved that in them dwelt one rare
and supreme quality, which, in all the ages, has covered a multitude of
sins. At a time when every one was a warrior and the whole world was
an armed camp, men sought great captains in whose following to serve.
Among the Moslems of Northern Africa, in ordered succession, there rose
to the surface “veritable men of the sea,” in the wake of whose galleys
ravened the Sea-wolves. When we consider how undisciplined and how
stupidly violent these pirates were by nature, and how they were welded
into a homogeneous whole by those of whom we speak, we are forced to
the conclusion that seldom, in all the ages, have abler captains arisen
to take fortune at the flood, to dominate the minds and the bodies of
a vast host, to prove that they were, in deed and in truth, supreme as
leaders of men.
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Vie des plus célèbres marins. Richer.
Histoire de Barberousse. Sander Rang et Ferdinand Denis.
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Reyno de Sicilia por el Rey Felipe Segundo. Nuestro señor. Valladolid,
1612.
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1573.
Historia de Carlos Quinto. El Maestro Don Fray Prudencio de Sandoval,
Obispo de Pampluna. 1612.
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Cervantes.
Arte de Navegar. Martin Cortes.
Diálogos del arte militar. Bernardino de Escalante. Seville, 1583.
Historia del combate naval de Lepanto. Cayetano Rosell.
Epitaphia joco-seria. Francisco Swertius. 1623.
La Guerra dei pirati e la marina Pontifica dal 1500 al 1560. Padre
Alberto Guglielmotti.
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Sanminiatelli, Zabarella, Colonello.
LIST OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, SULTANS OF TURKEY, POPES
OF ROME, AND GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA, BETWEEN THE DATES 1492–1580, THE
PERIOD COVERED IN THIS BOOK.
ENGLAND FRANCE
Henry VII., 1485–1509. Charles VIII.,1483–98.
Henry VIII., 1509–47. Louis XII., 1498–1515.
Edward VI., 1547–53. Francis I., 1515–47.
Mary, 1553–58. Henry II., 1547–59.
Elizabeth, 1558–1603. Francis II., 1559–60.
Charles IX., 1560–74.
Henry III., 1574–89.
SPAIN
Granada, taken by Ferdinand and Isabella, the sovereigns of Aragon
and Castile (“Los Reyes Catolicos”) in 1492. Their daughter, Joanna,
married Philip, son of the Emperor Maximilian of Germany. Ferdinand
died 1516, and was succeeded by Charles V., son of Philip and Joanna,
as King of Spain, in 1517. On the death of his grandfather Maximilian,
in 1519, Charles was elected Emperor of Germany. He resigned all his
dignities and retired to the monastery of Yuste in 1555, and was
succeeded by his son, Philip II. Charles died 1558. Philip II., who
married as his first wife Mary Tudor, of England, reigned from 1555
till 1598.
SULTANS OF TURKEY
Bajazet II., 1481–1512; Selim the Cruel, 1512–20; Soliman the
Magnificent, 1520–66; Selim II., known to the Spaniards as “el bebedor”
(the drunkard), 1566–74; Murad III., 1574–95.
POPES OF ROME
Pius III., 1503; Julius II., 1503; Leo X., 1513; Hadrian VI., 1522;
Clement VII., 1523; Paul III., 1534; Julius III., 1550; Marcellus II.,
1555; Paul IV., 1555; Pius IV., 1559; Pius V., 1566; Gregory XIII.,
1572; Sixtus V., 1585.
GRAND MASTERS OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA
Pierre d’Aubusson, 1476–1503; Emeri d’Amboise, 1503–13; Fabrice
Carette, 1513–21; Villiers de L’Isle Adam, 1521–36; Juan d’Omedes,
1536–53; Claude de la Sangle, 1553–57; Jean Parisot de la Valette,
1557–68; Pierre Dumont, 1568–72; Jean Levesque de la Cassière, 1572–82.
DISTANCES IN SEA MILES ON THE COAST OF NORTHERN AFRICA
Gibraltar to Oran 225’
Oran to Tenes 110’
Tenes to Shershell 41’
Shershell to Algiers 40’
Algiers to Bona 104’
Bona to Jigelli 30’
Jigelli to Bizerta 205’
Bizerta to Tunis 55’
Tunis to Susa 120’
Susa to Sfax 86’
Sfax to Jerbah, otherwise known as Los Gelues 54’
Jerbah to Tripoli 130’
Gibraltar to Algiers 410’
Algiers to Tunis 391’
Algiers to Tenes 91’
Tunis to Malta 232’
Malta to Tripoli in Barbary 200’
Tripoli to Cape Serrano 350’
Jerbah to Malta 210’
INDEX
Abdahar, 141.
Abu-Abd-Allah-Mahomed, 40.
Actium, battle of, 189, 199, 366.
Adam, Prince Philippe Villiers L’Isle, Grand Master of the Knights
of St. John, 42, 124, 299.
Adorno, Antony, 103.
Adriatic, coasts of the, 182.
Adrumentum, 251.
“Africa,” town of, position and fortifications, 251,
attacked and taken by Dragut, 257–259;
besieged by Andrea Doria, 265;
captured, 267;
mutiny, 268;
blown up, 268.
Ahmed, Arab, Basha of Algiers, 375,
assassinated, 375.
Albania, coast of, 363, 366.
Al-Burdon, 350.
Alcadaar, Alcaid, 349.
Alcala, Duke of, 311.
Alcala de Henares, 371.
Alcaudite, Count of, his defence of Marzaquivir, 10.
Aldemar, St., Geoffrey de, 291.
Aleppo, 120, 125.
Alexander IV., Pope, 290.
Alexander VI., Pope, 99.
Alexander VII., Pope, initiates the “Alliance of Christian Princes,” 38.
Alexandria, 49.
“Alexandria, The Young Moor of,” defeated, 177,
released, 178.
Alfonso, King of Navarre and Aragon, 291.
Alghieri, Bay of, 235.
Algiers, 2,
attacks on, 30, 88;
captured, 62, 64;
Moorish refugees at, 63;
appeal for help, 66;
surrenders, 89;
mutiny of Janissaries, 355;
treaty with King Charles II., 377.
Ali Ahamed, Admiral of Algiers, 345.
Ali, at the siege of Malta, 328.
Ali Basha, or Occhiali or Uluchali, 6, 14, 22,
present at the conference held by Soliman, 316;
his birthplace, 345;
endures the life of a galley-slave, 345;
becomes a Mussulman, 346;
enters the service of Dragut, 346;
at the siege of Malta, 346;
appointed Viceroy of Tripoli, 347;
Governor of Algiers, 347;
view of his duties,347;
offered the sovereignty of Tunis, 349;
expedition against Hamid, 349;
captures Tunis, 350, 375;
captures galleys of the Knights, 352–355;
at the battle of Lepanto, 363,368–371;
his banner, 368;
captures the _Capitana_, 370;
withdraws and escapes, 371;
returns to Constantinople, 373, 375;
nominated Admiralissimo, 374;
his palace, 375;
ailment of “scald-head,” 375;
death, 376.
Ali Basha, in command of the Turkish forces, 361,
at the battle of Lepanto, 367;
beheaded, 369.
Ali-Chabelli defeated, 180.
Al-Mehedi, his fortifications of “Africa” blown up, 268.
Amalfi, 287.
Ambracian Gulf, 189.
Amburac, Ibrahim, his plot with Dragut, 253, 256.
Ampasta, Rio de, 83.
An, Rev. Frere Pierre d’, on the dangers from the corsairs of
Barbary, 20–22, 27.
Andalusia, 4, 15.
Andior, 246.
Andrade, Captain Diego de, 73.
Andros, island of, 187.
Angelo, Michel, 139.
Aponte, Antonio de, “Electo Mayor” of “Africa,” 268.
Aragon, Alfonso d’, 235.
Aragon, Ferdinand of, acquires Granada, 29,
attempts to recover Naples, 99.
Arba, Francisco d’, 210, 217.
Archipelago, islands of the, 182,
raid on, 187.
Arta, Gulf of, 189, 191, 195, 366.
Aubusson Pierre D’, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, 37, 38,
39, 298.
Augustus Caesar, at the battle of Actium, 189, 199.
Austria, Don John of, 23, 230,
in command of the forces of the “Holy League,” 357;
at Barcelona, 357;
reception at Naples, 358;
dress, 358;
appearance, 359, 365;
at Messina, 359;
his fleet, 364;
instructions, 365;
at the battle of Lepanto, 366–371;
recaptures Tunis, 375.
Baetio, 141.
Bairan-Ogli, the Reis, in command of the “puissant galleon,” 313.
Balearic Islands, 32, 66.
Barbarigo, Provéditeur, at the battle of Lepanto, 363.
Barbarossa, Hassan, left in charge of Algiers, 312.
Barbarossa, Khoyr-ed-Din, 6, 14, 17, 22, 108,
King of the Sea, 24;
his birth, 43;
title, 45, 51;
joins his brother at the island of Jerba, 50;
attacks _The Galley of Naples_, 51–54;
his wealth, 56;
captures Jigelli, 56–58;
his embassy to Soliman, 60, 76;
character, 67, 75, 114–116, 127, 219;
treatment of Hassan, 85–87;
defeated by Venalcadi, 87;
his allies, 88;
fight against Venalcadi, 88;
assisted by Spanish captives, 89;
captures Algiers, 89;
lays siege to the fortress of Navarro, 92–95;
his plunder of the Christians, 108;
requested to take the command of the Ottoman fleet, 111;
voyage to Constantinople, 112–117;
his captures, 113, 133;
cruelty, 115, 133, 220;
entry into Constantinople, 117;
gifts to Soliman, 118;
reception, 120;
at Aleppo, 125;
appointed head of the fleet, 127;
his age, 127, 190;
appearance, 127;
speech to the Sultan, 128–130;
raids on the coast of Italy, 133–137;
sacks Reggio, 133;
captures 11,000 Christian slaves, 133;
his attempt to capture Julia Gonzaga, 134–136;
enters Tunis 138;
massacre of the inhabitants, 141;
his fame, 142;
appeal for help against the Christian hosts, 146;
preparations for defence, 152;
joined by the tribesmen, 153;
defeated, 158;
flight, 159;
sufferings of his army, 163;
at Bona, 164;
embarks, 165;
retires to Algiers, 168;
return of his men, 169;
captures the castle of Minorca, 172;
recalled to Constantinople, 173, 178, 182;
ravages, 182;
number of slaves, 182;
sets sail, 185;
his innovation in the manning of galleys, 185–187;
raid on the islands of the Archipelago, 187;
his age, 190;
hesitates to fight, 193;
anchored in the Gulf of Arta, 194–207;
at the battle of Prevesa, 208–216;
withdraws from the battle, 213, 215, 217;
his death, 220, 250;
ransoms Dragut, 248.
Barbarossa, Uruj, 7, 74,
his birth, 43;
character, 44;
first attempt at piracy, 45;
taken prisoner, 46;
escapes, 47, 48;
presented with a ship, 48;
winters at Alexandria, 49;
at the island of Jerba, 50;
joined by his brother, 50;
treaty with the Sultan of Tunis, 51;
attackes _The Galley of Naples_, 51–54;
wounded, 54;
attacks on Bougie, 55, 58;
loses an arm, 55;
appeal from the Algerines, 66;
treatment of Kara-Hassan, 66;
besieges Navarre’s Tower, 67;
slaughters the Berbers, 68–70;
defeats Don Diego, 71;
marches on Tlemcen, 72;
blockaded, 73;
killed, 73.
Barbary, coast of, 236.
Barbary, corsairs of, their character, 21.
Barbezieux, his attempt to seize Andrea Doria, 104.
Barcelona, 148, 357.
Bazan, Don Alvaro de, General of the Galleys of Spain,
at Barcelona, 149,
Admiral of Castile, 359.
Beachy Head, battle of, 283.
Beja, 350.
Bengabara, Alcaid, 349.
Berber tribes, their character, 57,
number, 57;
conspiracy against Uruj Barbarossa, 68;
slaughtered, 69.
Bergerac, Jean Marteille de, on the treatment of slaves on board the
galleys, 224.
Bianco, Cape, 189.
Biba, island of, 113.
Bizerta, 2, 40,
captured, 41;
massacre of, 141.
Boabdil el Chico, yields up Granada, 29.
Bona, 153, 164, 350,
Cape, 264.
Bonifacio, Straits of, 113, 136.
Borgo, Il, fortress, siege of, 32, 324, 342.
Bosworth, battle of, 215.
Botaybo, Alcaid, 349.
Bougaroni, Cape, 56.
Bougie, 2, 153,
attacks on, 55, 58.
Bouillon, Godfrey de, defeats the Saracens, 287.
Bourdeille, Pierre de, 242, 344.
Bragadino, his defence of Famagusta, 362,
killed, 362.
Brigantines, 18, 151, 240.
Broglio, Commandeur, at the siege of Malta, 333.
Byzacena, 40.
Byzantine, Empire, fall of the, 33.
Cabri, 246.
Cachidiablo, 88, 90.
Cadiz, 4.
Cadolin, defeated, 100.
Cagliari, Bay of, 152, 236.
Calabria, 345.
Calibia, castle of, surrender, 264.
Canale, Girolame, his victory over the Moslems, 177.
Candia, 187.
Cañete, Marquis de, Viceroy and Captain General of Navarre, 147.
Cantara, La Bocca de, 272, 274.
Capello, Vicenzo, his age, 190,
in command of the Venetian fleet, 191, 215;
at Corfu, 191.
_Capitana_, the, captured, 354, 370,
retaken, 371.
Capua, Prior of, his designs for the building of St. Elmo fortress, 325.
Caracosa, Marie, 98.
Caramania, coast of, 35, 37, 45, 48.
Caravajal, Don Luys de Marmol, his “Descripcion general de Affrica,” 272.
Caravels, 231.
Carouan, 348.
Castel Rosso, Isle of, 47.
Castile, Isabella of, 29.
Castriot, Constantine, his report on the condition of St. Elmo, 337.
Centurion, Adan, fails to attack Barbarossa, 165.
Cephalonia, 313, 363, 366.
Cervantes, Miguel de, his mention of Ali Basha, 345,
at the battle of Lepanto, 371;
his wounds, 372.
Charabulac, 242.
Charlemagne, Emperor, his renown, 286.
Charles II., King of England, his treaty with Algiers, 377.
Charles V., Emperor, 14, 79,
history of, 43;
determines to crush the corsairs, 80;
total fleet and army, 81,191;
caught in a storm, 82;
his wrath on the fall of Navarro, 97;
acquisitions, 98;
suzerain of Genoa, 101;
joined by Andrea Doria, 105;
his trust in him, 107;
preparations for his attack on Barbarossa, 143;
at Barcelona, 148;
joined by his allies, 148–150;
reviews the armada, 150;
embarks in the _Galera Capitana_, 150;
attack on the fortress of La Goletta, 156;
defeats Barbarossa, 159;
letter to the potentates, 163;
evacuates Tunis, 166;
his mistaken policy, 167;
at Corfu, 191;
orders the destruction of Dragut, 245, 261;
orders the capture of “Africa,” 265;
denunciation of Dragut, 271;
concentrates his fleet at Messina, 278.
“Christian Princes, Alliance of,” formed, 38,
artillery, 39;
seize Naples, 40.
Christian slaves, number of, captured, 133.
Città Notabile, 308.
Civita Lavinia, 140.
Coeva, Andrea, 98.
Colonna, Camille, taken prisoner, 101.
Colonna, Mark Antony, in command of the Papal fleet, 360, 364.
Colonna, Vespasian, 134.
Columbus, his caravels, 231.
Comares, Marquis de, 80.
Condalmiero, Alessandro, Captain of the _Galleon of Venice_, 192, 194,
attacked by the Moslems, 209–213;
his victory, 213.
Constantine, 350.
Constantinople, fall of, 33,
entry of Barbarossa into, 117.
Còrdoba, Don Martin de, his defence of Oran, 10.
Còrdoba, Gonsalvo de, the “Great Captain,” 39,
war against Roverejo, 99;
besieges the fortress of Rocca Guillelma, 99.
Còrdoba, Mosque at, 64.
Corfu, siege of, 179.
Cornet, Commandeur de, 337.
Cornillan, Pierre de, appointed Grand Master of the Knights
of St. John, 298.
Coron, 355.
Coronado, Capt. Juan Vasquez, 273.
Corsairs, Moslem, their iron and rigid discipline, 7.
_See_ Moslem
Corsica, coast of, 246.
Corso, Mami, left in charge of Algiers, 349.
Cos, or Lango, island of, fortifications of, 292.
Curtogali, at Bizerta, 40,
his depredations, 41;
attempt to carry off the Pope, 41, 140;
Governor of Rhodes, 42.
Cyprus, island of, 34, 356.
Daoud Pasha, Admiral, defeats Grimani, 38.
Dardanelles, 116,
fortification of the, 34.
Daru, P., _Histoire de Venise_, 364, 367.
Delizuff, joins forces with Barbarossa, 112,
killed, 113.
Diou-Donnè, Gozon de, his mode of killing a serpent, 294–296,
praises of his services, 297;
appointed Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, 298;
his death, 298.
Doria Andrea, 6, 22, 108,
his birth, 98;
parents, 98;
sent to Rome, 98;
at the court of Urbino, 99;
in the service of the King of Aragon, 99;
joins Roverejo, 99;
takes service with Lodovico Sforza, 100;
appointed General of the Galleys, 100;
captures the Fort of the Lantern, 100;
defeats Cadolin, 100;
appointed Captain-General of the Galleys of France, 101;
the treatment of Francis I., 102, 104;
letter to him, 103;
joins Charles V., 105;
honours received from Genoa, 105;
Admiralissimo of the Navy, 107, 151;
defeats the Turks at Patras, 109;
at Barcelona, 148;
captures Bona, 166;
pursuit of Barbarossa, 166;
defeats Ali-Chabelli, 180;
wounded, 180;
appearance, 180;
age, 190;
his fleet, 192;
anchors outside the Gulf of Arta, 194–207;
at Sessola, 207;
tactics at the battle of Prevesa, 214;
sails away, 216;
ordered to capture Dragut, 261, 271;
his pursuit of him, 262–264;
expedition against “Africa,” 265;
blockades Dragut at Jerbah, 271–275;
allows him to escape, 275.
Doria, David, 99.
Doria, Dominique, 98.
Doria, Franco, 192.
Doria, Jannetin, captures Dragut, 245–247.
Doria, John, 165.
Doria, John Andrea, at the battle of Lepanto, 363, 367, 370.
Doria, Philippin, defeats Moncada, 101.
Dragut-Reis, 10, 14, 22,
his birth and parents, 242;
career, 242;
offers his services to Barbarossa, 243;
in command of twelve galleys, 243;
his destruction ordered, 245, 261;
captured by Jannetin Doria, 245–247;
employed as a galley slave, 248;
ransomed, 248;
increase of power, 250;
his desire to capture “Africa,” 251;
plot with Ibrahim Amburac, 253;
preparations for the attack, 254–256;
wounded, 257;
attack on the city, 257–259;
pursued by Andrea Doria, 262–264, 271;
his “Horrid Devastations,” 264;
in the siege of “Africa,” 265;
escapes, 267;
at Constantinople, 269, 276;
denounced by Charles V., 270;
appointed Sandjak, or governor, of the island of Santa Maura, 271;
blockaded at Jerban, 271–275;
mode of escape, 275;
hatred of the Knights of Malta, 276, 286;
autocrat of Tripoli, 309;
characteristics, 315;
at the siege of Malta, 329–339;
mortally wounded, 339;
death, 341.
Dupuy, Raimond, joins the Hospice of St. John, 288,
appointed Grand Master, 289;
forms a military corps, 289.
Eginard, 286.
Egypt, Soldan of, his treatment of the Knights of Saint John, 34,
besieges Rhodes, 36.
Elmo, St., siege of, 6, 301–305, 323–341,
appeal of the garrison to abandon the fortress, 335–337;
their use of fireworks, 339;
fall, 341.
Escalente, Bernardino de, his “Diálogos del arte militar,” 371.
Esquemelin, John, his literary labours, 1.
Etienne, St., Mount, 294.
Eutemi, Selim, besieges Algiers, 65,
assassinated, 68.
Exmouth, Lord, bombards Algiers,30.
Famagusta, captured, 362.
Ferdinand V., King of Spain, joins the “Alliance of Christian
Princes,” 38,
his death, 65.
_Florence_, the, 236.
Floreta, M. de., 144.
Forfait, on the speed of the galley, 234.
Francis I., 14,
appoints Andrea Doria Captain of his fleet, 101;
attempts to levy a fine, 102;
treatment of him, 102;
fortifies Savona, 103;
letter from Andrea Doria, 103;
attempts to take him prisoner, 104;
refuses to join in the war against Barbarossa, 144;
treachery, 144.
Fundi, 134,
sacked by the corsairs, 136.
Galeasse, the, 18,
description of a, 233.
_Galera Capitana_, 150,
number of flags and banners on board, 151.
_Galleon of Venice_, 192, 194, 208,
attacked by the Moslems, 209–213;
victory, 213.
Galley, 2, 18,
sufferings of the rower, 19, 221;
innovation in the manning, 185;
mobility, 222;
length, 222;
number of men on board, 223;
treatment of the slaves, 223–229, 379;
size, 229;
mode of opening fire, 230;
speed, 234;
obsolete, 236.
_Galley of Naples, The_, attacked by the brothers Barbarossa, 51–54.
Gardampe, Chevalier Abel de Bridiers de la, killed at the siege
of Malta, 333.
Gelves, 271.
Genoa, 32,
arrangement with the Grand Turk, 34;
confers honours on Andrea Doria, 105.
Gerard, the founder of the Order of St. John, 287,
death, 288.
Gibraltar, Straits of, 15.
Giou, Chevalier de, 313.
Goialatta, 246.
Goletta, La, 348,
attack on the fortress, 156;
fall, 157;
captured, 313.
Gomez, Alvar, left in charge of Bona, 166.
Gonzaga, Hernando de, his advice at the battle of Prevesa, 198.
Gonzaga, Julia, attempt to capture her, 134–136,
escape, 136.
Gozo, island of, Knights of St. John at, 277, 299,
sacked, 309.
Granada, fall of, 4, 8, 22,
expulsion of the Moors from, 8, 29;
revolt in, 347.
Grandenico, Count, 178.
Granvelle, Cardinal, 7, 359.
Gravière, Admiral Jurien de la, 17, 54, 127, 214,
his description of a Galeasse, 233.
_Great Harry_, 232.
Grimani, Antonio, the Venetian Admiral, defeated at Zonchio, 38.
Grimani, Marco, in command of the Papal contingent, 191, 214,
at Corfu, 191;
raid on Arta, 191.
Guasto, Marquis de, taken prisoner, 101,
his suggestion to Andrea Doria, 104;
in command of the army, 156.
Guerare, Sergeant-Major, at the siege of Malta, 332.
Guglielmotti, Alberto, his work “La Guerra dei Pirati,” 39, 41, 180.
Guimeran, Commandeur de, success of his ambush, 307.
_Guzmana_, the galley, 371.
Hadj-Hossein, his embassy to Selim I., 76–78.
Haedo, Don Fray Diego de, his History of Algiers, 96, 348, 353, 374.
Hamid, King of Tunis, character of his rule, 348,
conspiracy against, 349;
flight, 350.
Hassan Ali, 53,
ravages towns and villages, 83;
repulsed by Spaniards, 84;
flogged and imprisoned, 86;
released, 87;
attacks Barbarossa, 87.
Hassem, his attack on Oran, 10,
retreat, 10.
Henry II., 34.
Henry VII., 215.
Henry VIII., 14.
Herbert, Arthur, concludes a treaty with Algiers, 377.
Himeral, Basha, 114, 125.
Hogue, La, battle of, 283.
Honoré II., Pope, 291.
Horusco, Pero Lopez de, 166.
Hunyadi, John, 14.
Hyères, island of, 234.
Ibrahim, Grand Vizier to Soliman, 9,
his mission to Aleppo, 120;
advice, 123;
impressions of Barbarossa, 126;
return from Aleppo, 132;
his relations with Soliman, 173;
murdered, 176.
Innocent VIII., Pope, 98.
Ionian Islands, 179.
Ionian Sea, 49.
Ithaca, island of, 366.
Iviza, 82.
Janissaries, their character as soldiers, 8,
institution, 279;
system of training, 280;
mutiny in Algiers, 355.
Jerbale, 2, 50, 153, 251.
Jerusalem, Hospice of St. John at, 287.
Jigelli, 2, 56,
siege of, 57.
John of Jerusalem, St., Knights of, 18. _See_ Knights
Judeo, El, 88.
Kara-Hassan, takes possession of Shershell, 66,
beheaded, 67.
Khorkud, Governor of Caramania, 48.
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, or Knights of Malta,
their bigotry, 18,
take refuge at Limasol, 34;
characteristics, 35, 36;
fortifications of Rhodes, 35;
faith, 36;
repulse the Turks, 37;
expelled from Rhodes, 42, 277;
forced to retreat to Malta, 42, 277, 292;
their use of galleys, 229;
fight for their “Religion,” 277;
warfare against the corsairs, 277;
history of the Order, 286–291;
founded at Jerusalem, 287;
Grand Masters, 289–298, 301;
crusade against the Infidel, 289;
composition of the Order, 289;
languages, 290;
dress, 290;
form of government, 291;
in the siege of Malta, 300, 324–342;
number of deaths, 300;
capture fortresses, 312;
capture the “puissant galleon,” 313;
at Licata, 352;
their galleys captured by Ali Basha, 352–355.
Knights Templars, foundation of the Order, 291,
code of regulations, 291.
Kustir-Aga, chief Eunuch of the Seraglio, 313.
Lamirande, Chevalier, at the siege of Malta, 334,
killed, 341.
_Lancaster_, the cruiser, 231.
Lanciani, extract from “The Golden Age of the Renaissance,” 139.
Lantern, Fort of the, captured, 100.
Lautrec, Marshal de, 104.
Leo X., Pope, 41,
attempt on his life, 140;
flight to Rome, 141.
Lepanto, battle of, 6, 23, 362–372;
number of killed and wounded, 372.
Lerici, 104.
Leyva, Antonio de, 143.
Leyva, Don Sancho de, Governor of “Africa,” 267.
Liazzo, 246.
Licastelli, 345.
Licata, 352.
Limasol, 34.
Loredano, Jacques, 34.
Loredano, Captain, at the battle of Lepanto, 369.
Los Gelues, 112, 271.
Louis XII., 100,
joins the “Alliance of Christian Princes,” 38.
Magliana, Castle of, 140.
Mahan, Rear-Admiral, his books on “Sea Power,” 14.
Mahomedi, banished from Constantinople, 43,
his sons, 43.
Mahomet, result of his death, 286.
Mahomet II., Caliph, captures Constantinople, 33,
fortifies the Dardanelles, 34;
defeated Rhodes, 38;
death, 38.
Majorca, 172.
Malipier, Captain, at the battle of Lepanto, 369.
Malta, siege of, 6, 22, 299–305, 324–342,
number of deaths, 300;
position, 315;
expedition against, 316;
preparations for the siege, 318–321.
Malta, Knights of, _see_ Knights
_Marquesa_, the galley, 371.
Marsa Muzetto harbour, 325, 331.
Marsaquivir, attack on, 10.
Maura, Santa, island of, 207, 271.
Mecca, 4.
Medina-Celi, Juan la Cerda, Duke of, expedition against Tripoli, 311.
Medran, Chevalier Gonzales de, at the siege of St. Elmo, 327, 332, 335.
Mehedia, 251.
Melac, Commandeur Gozon de, 312.
Mendoza, Bernard de, in command of La Goletta, 166.
Mendoza, Don Luis Hurtado de, 143.
Messina, 180, 278, 359.
Minorca, 172.
Mitylene, island of, 43.
Monastir, 2, 250.
Moncada, Don Hugo de, Viceroy of Sicily, 80,
escapes to Iviza, 82;
defeated and slain, 101.
Mondejar, Marquis de, 143.
Monferrato, Monastery of Nuestra Señora de, pilgrimages to, 150, 357.
Monte Cristo island, 113.
Montmorency, Anne de, 281.
Monuc, the eunuch, 206.
Moors, their characteristics, 4,
expulsion from Granada, 8, 29;
their condition in Algiers, 63.
Morea, the, 355, 366.
Morgan, Sir Henry, his capture of Panama, 24.
Morgan, J., his _Compleat History of Algiers_, 243, 250, 345.
Moriscoes, their persecutions, 5,
revolt in Granada, 347.
Mosca, Lodovico del, 39.
Moslem corsairs, their cupidity, 3,
driven out of Spain, 4, 29;
characteristics, 4, 67, 241;
fanaticism, 5, 17;
supremacy on the sea, 8;
frequent defeats, 10;
tyranny, 11;
ships, 18;
booty, 24;
cruel methods, 24, 32;
retrogression, 239;
mode of commencing their careers, 240;
conquer Palestine, 286;
at the siege of Malta, 300;
number of deaths, 300.
Motte, Chevalier de la, at the siege of St. Elmo, 327.
Mourad-Reis, 201.
Moustafa-Billah, Caliph, 287.
Muley Hamid, negotiations with, 330.
Muley Hassan, King of Tunis, 130, 137,
restored to his kingdom, 161;
terms of his vassalage, 162.
Mustafa, in command of the land forces against Malta, 316, 322,
captures Famagusta, 362.
Naples, seized, 40,
invasion of, 90;
reception of Don John of Austria at, 358.
Navarro, Count Pedro de, seizes the town of Bougie, 55,
captures Algiers, 62, 64;
his Tower, 64.
Navarro’s Tower, siege of, 65, 67, 91–95,
captured, 95;
pulled down, 97.
Nef, the, 18, 232.
Negropont, Bailli of, at the siege of Malta, 326, 332, 333,
killed, 341.
Nunez, Martin, his embassy to the Pope, 163.
Occhiali. _See_ Ali Basha.
Ojeda, Captain, rescues the _Capitana_ at the battle of Lepanto, 371.
Omedes, Juan d’, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, 278,
warned of the approach of the corsairs, 281;
refuses to take alarm, 281, 306.
Oneglia, 98.
Oran, 2, 73,
attack on, 10.
Oristano, Gulf of, 236.
Osmanli, their warlike achievements on land, 15.
Ottoman, 292,
his siege of Rhodes, 293.
_Our Lady of the Conception_, 45.
Palamos, Bay of, 236.
Palermo, 265.
Palestine, conquered by Moslems, 286.
Palma, 172.
Panama, capture of, 24.
Pantellaria, island of, 236.
Pantera, Captain Pantero, “L’ Armata Navale,” 225.
Parma, Prince of, at the battle of Lepanto, 364.
Paschal II., Pope, 301.
Passaro, Cape, 352.
Patras, Turks defeated at, 109.
_Patrona_ galley, capture of, 275.
Paul III., his scheme of defence for Rome, 139.
Paxo, island of, 180.
Payens, Hugues de, founds the Order of the Knights Templars, 291.
Pedro, Francisco San, 371.
Penne, Barras de la, on the treatment of men on board the galleys, 223.
Peter the Hermit, 287.
Philip II., King of Spain, 274, 311,
forms the “Holy League,” 357;
his fleet, 360.
Piali, Admiral, 10,
in command of the fleet against Malta, 316, 322.
Pierre, St., Isle of, 235.
Pius V., Pope, 356, 373,
forms the “Holy League,” 357.
Portugal, Don Juan, King of, his armada at Barcelona, 148.
Portugal, Prince Luis of, at Barcelona, 148, 150.
Prescott, William Hickling, 4,
his description of the Janissaries, 279;
of Don John of Austria, 358;
of the battle of Lepanto, 364, 368.
Press-gang, methods of the, 226.
Prevesa, battle of, 6, 22, 108, 189, 190, 194–218, 366.
Punta delle Forche, 277, 333.
Rabadan, Celebi, 92, 112.
Rabadan, left in charge of Tunis, 351.
Raschid, 130, 137.
Raschid, Caliph Haroun, 287.
Ravenstein, Count Philip of, 39.
_Real_, the, 364.
Reggio, 32,
sack of, 133.
Reis, Aisa-, left in charge of “Africa,” 261, 264,
his defence, 266;
captured, 267.
Reis, Dragut-, _See_ Dragut
Requesens, Don Luiz de, disaster to his fleet, 234.
_Revenge_, the, 354.
Rhodes, island of, 242,
seized by the Knights of St. John, 35, 292;
besieged, 36, 293;
serpent at, 294–296;
derivation of the name, 297.
Ribera, Don Perisan de, 80.
Ricasoli, 333.
Richard II, 215.
Rio, Juan del, taken captive, 71.
Rivière, Chevalier La, 322.
Robeira, Captain, repulses the corsairs, 84.
Rocca Guillelma, fortress of, besieged, 99.
Rodas, Capitan de, 111.
Roderick the Goth, conquered by the Osmanli, 15, 29.
Rome, fortifications of, 139.
Romegas, Commandeur de, 312, 313,
his account of the battle of Lepanto, 360.
Rosell, Don Cayetano, his _Historia del combate naval de Lepanto_,
359, 364.
Roverejo, Juan, war with Cordoba, 99.
Roxalana, Sultana, her influence over Soliman, 174,
characteristics, 174;
jealousy, 174;
murders Ibrahim, 176.
Salaerrez, 88.
Saleh-Reis, 187.
Salerno, Gulf of, 101.
Sallee, the rovers, 237.
Sandoval, El Maestro Don Fray Prudencio de, his history of Charles V.,
43, 70, 71, 108, 142, 144, 150, 155.
Sangle, Claude de la, his death, 309.
Sangullo, Antonio de, 139.
_Santa Ana_, bravery of the, 353.
Santa Cruz, Marquis of, at the battle of Lepanto, 364,
rescues the _Capitana_, 371.
_Santa Maria_, the flagship of Columbus, 231.
Sardinia, 136.
Satalie, Gulf of, 47.
Savona, fortification of, 103.
Sceberass, Mount, 301, 307, 325, 342.
Scutari, 38.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean,
take refuge in Northern Africa, 1;
their deeds of terror, 2;
cupidity, 3;
fanaticism, 5, 17;
autocratic rule, 7, 25;
equality, 7;
aptitude for the sea, 8;
defeats, 10;
nefarious doings, 15;
characteristics of their leaders, 16, 25, 284, 376;
ships, 18;
character of the men, 26;
leagues against, 29;
relations with the Turks, 33.
Seignelay, his criticism of Admiral de Tourville, 283.
Selim I., Sultan of Turkey. _See_ Soliman
Selim II., Sultan of Turkey, 356,
his character, 356;
lays claim to the island of Cyprus, 356.
Serpent, method of killing, 294–296.
Sesse, Duke of, 311.
Sessola, islet of, 207.
Sfax, 2, 250.
Sforza, Lodovico, Duke of Milan, 100.
Shershell, 2, 66.
Shott-el-Jerid, 153.
Sinan-Reis, in command of La Goletta fortress, 156,
at the battle of Prevesa, 197;
in command of the Janissaries, 279, 281;
character as a leader, 285, 307;
his expedition against Malta, 306;
sacks the island of Gozo, 309;
captures Tripoli, 309.
Skiathos, 187.
Skios island, 187.
Slaves, on board galleys, their treatment, 223–229,
mutiny at Lepanto, 228.
Smyrna, Basha of, 48.
Soliman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, 9, 14, 109,
expels the Knights of St. John from Rhodes, 42, 277, 299;
embassy from Barbarossa, 60, 76;
sends reinforcements, 61;
recalls his ships, 61;
his conquest of the Mamelukes, 77;
invites the cooperation of Barbarossa, 110;
appoints him commander of his fleet, 111, 117, 127;
receives gifts from him, 118;
his reception of him, 120;
relations with Ibrahim, 173;
under the influence of Roxalana, 174;
declares war against Venice, 179;
defeated, 179;
preparations for campaigns, 183, 277, 316;
his demands from Charles V., 270;
loss of his “puissant galleon,” 313;
lamentations of his people, 314;
holds a conference, 316;
expedition against Malta, 316;
his death, 356.
Spaniards, under Moorish rule, 30,
expedition against the Barbarossas, 62;
repulse Hassan, 84;
captives, assist in the capture of Algiers, 89;
restored to liberty, 89.
Spartivento, Cape, 136.
Spezzia, Gulf of, 104.
Susa, 2, 250.
Swertius, Franciscus, his collection of epitaphs, 373.
Tabas, 88.
Taranto, 32.
Tarik, 15, 29.
Tenes, 2,
fall of, 72.
Thevenot, his Travels, 297.
Tiber, the, 139.
Tineo, Garzia de, kills Uruj Barbarossa, 73.
Tlemcen, 2.
Tlemcen, Sultan of, his flight to Fez, 72.
Toledo, Don Garcia de, 230;
in the expedition against Dragut, 265;
his character as a ruler, 317.
Toledo, Don Pedro de, 273.
Tours, Viscomte de, sent to Genoa, 102.
Tourville, Admiral de, criticism on, 283.
Traparni, 265.
Tripoli, 2, 153,
defence of, 10;
capture, 309;
fortifications, 311;
expedition against, 311.
Trivulce, Theodore, 104.
Tunis, 2,
captured by the corsairs, 137, 375;
massacre in, 141, 159;
fortifications repaired, 146;
rebellion in, 348;
appeal to Ali Basha, 349;
flight of Hamid, 350.
Tunis, Sultan of, his treaties with the Barbarossas, 51, 61,
repudiates treaty, 59.
Turks, their character as soldiers, 8, 124,
relations with the Sea-wolves, 33;
attack on Rhodes, 37;
defeated at Patras, 109.
Tuscany, Duke of, 235.
Urbain II., Pope, 287.
Urbino, Duke of, 99,
at the battle of Lepanto, 364.
Vagnor, Chevalier, 333.
Valentia, ravaged by corsairs, 83.
Valetta, position of, 307, 342.
Valette, Jean Parisot de la, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John,
6, 248;
his characteristics, 301, 309;
creed, 302;
personal example in the siege of Malta, 302–305;
his high conception of duty, 310;
expedition against Tripoli, 311;
repulsed, 312;
summons help, 318;
preparations for the siege, 318–321;
address to his brethren, 319;
at the siege of Malta, 324–328;
reinforcements, 328.
Vargas, Martin de, in command of the fortress of Navarro, 91,
besieged, 91–95;
wounded and taken prisoner, 95;
beheaded, 96.
Vasto, Marquis de, 143.
Vega, Don Alvaro, in command of “Africa,” 267.
Vega, Don Juan de, Viceroy of Sicily, 273,
in the expedition against Dragut, 265.
Velez, Peñon de, captured, 312.
Venalcadi, 73,
escapes, 86;
attacks Barbarossa, 87;
fight, 88;
beheaded, 88.
_Vengeur_, the, 354.
Venice, 32,
treaty of commerce concluded, 34;
relations with Soliman, 179;
war declared, 179;
“Holy League” formed, 357.
Veniero, Sebastian in command of the Venetian fleet, 360, 364.
Vera, Don Diego de, sent to capture Algiers, 70,
defeated, 71.
Vercoyran, Chevalier de, at the siege of Malta, 332.
Vertot, M. L’Abbé de, 273, 297, 311.
_Victory_, the, 354.
Villaret, Fulke de, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, 35,
seizes Rhodes, 35, 292.
Villegagnon, Commandeur de, his interview with the Grand Master, 281.
Villeneuve, Helion de, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, 293,
character of his rule, 293;
death, 297.
Vittoriosa, 299.
Volo, Gulf of, 187.
Ximenes, Fray Francisco, Cardinal Bishop of Toledo, 70.
Yamboli, 216.
Yonis Bey, sent to Venice, 178.
Zante, island of, 114, 313.
Zara, port of, 227.
Zay, Basha, 114, 125.
Zonchio, battle of, 38.
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