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Battle of the Dalmatian Coast
Part of Ottoman–Habsburg wars
Date July 12, 1624 Location Off the coast of Dalmatia Result Christian victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire Republic of Genoa	Ottoman Empire Eyalet of Tunis Regency of Algiers
Commanders and leaders
Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides	Unknown
Strength
20 galleys	13 galleys
Casualties and losses
Minor	6 galleys sunk 7 galleys captured

The Battle of the Dalmatian Coast of 1624 was a naval battle between a Spanish, Maltese and Venetian fleet captained by Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides and a Barbary corsair fleet from Tunis and Algiers, originally pursued by him before the Battle of the Gulf of Tunis. It resulted in a Christian victory.

Background

After defeating the privateer Ali Arraez Rabazin in Tunis while searching for the Tunisian fleet, Bazán captured other two Barbary ships in Cape Farina before returning to Sicily to hand over the prey. At that moment, Viceroy of Sicily Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy received a message from the Republic of Venice, informing that they had found the Barbary fleet searched by Bazán, which they had managed to against the coast of Dalmatia. The fleet was composed of 2 Ottoman galleys from Rhodes, six Tunisian ones from Bizerte and five from Algies. Philibert immediately sent in Bazán with his previous nine galleys, reinforced this time with four more from the Republic of Genoa that were at the time in the port of Messina.

Battle

Bazán and his armada arrived in Dalmatia on July 12 thanks to favorable wind, and upon arriving they made a council of war with the local Venetian ships, deciding to attack the cornered enemies as soon as possible. With their advantage in numbers and guns, the European galleys unloaded artillery at once against the Ottoman galleys, among which six of them were damaged and sank. The Christians then boarded the rest, unchaining galley slaves and making prisoners, before eventually capturing all the seven ships.

Aftermath

The Christian armada divided the booty and prisoners, who numbered in 350, and embarked the rescued Christians, many of them Catalans taken in recent raids. One of the captured ships turned out to be the former flagship of the Spanish galley squad of Barcelona, taken by Barbary corsairs in a previous encounter. They also found out that another of the Turkish ships was carruing a female relative of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Murad IV, taking her to Messina with care appropriate to her rank.

References

1. Fernández Duro (1885), p. 420.
2. Fernández Duro (1885), p. 420-421.
3. ^ Fernández Duro (1885), p. 421.
4. ^ Fernández Duro (1885), p. 422.
5. ^ Fernández Duro (1885), p. 423.

• Fernández Duro, Cesáreo (1885). El gran duque de Osuna y su marina: jornadas contra turcos y venecianos (1602-1624). Sucesores de Rivadeneyra.
• Gómez, Antonio (2019). Con balas de plata VI. 1621-30. Difundia. ISBN 9788417799991.
• de la Guardia, Ricardo (1914). Notas para un Cronicón de la Marina Militar de España. Anales de trece siglos de historia de la marina. El Correo Gallego.

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• 1623 in the Ottoman Empire
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