Raid on Ceriale and Borghetto

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Raid on Ceriale and Borghetto

Date	Summer 1637
Location	Ceriale, Borghetto, Italy
Result	Algerian victory

Belligerents

Republic of Genoa

Regency of Algiers

Commanders and leaders

Unknown

Strength

Unknown

8 Galleys^[1]

Casualties and losses

337 Enslaved

Unknown

The Raid on Ceriale and Borghetto was made by the Regency of Algiers against the Republic of Genoa in the Summer of 1637.

Raid

In the year 1637, a significant Algerian incursion along the Ligurian coast, specifically targeting Ceriale and Borghetto, resulted in the capture of approximately 337 individuals, encompassing men, women, and children. a considerable portion of these captives died due to harsh conditions or remained unredeemed.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ K. Bekkaoui, White Women Captives in North Africa, Narratives of Enslavement, 1735–1830 p. 2
^ Epstein, Steven A. (2018-05-15). Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-2513-5.
^ Scott, William (1907). The Riviera. A. & C. Black.
^ Kaiser, Wolfgang (2008). Le commerce des captifs: les intermédiaires dans l'échange et le rachat des prisonniers en Méditerraneé, XVe-XVIIIe siècle (in French). École française de Rome. ISBN 978-2-7283-0805-7.
^ Orlando, Filippo (1889). Giornale di erudizione: corrispondenza letteraria, artistica e scientifica (in Italian).

Barbary Corsairs

Territories
Regency of Algiers Annaba Barbary coast Bizerte Cherchell Mahdiya Oran Rabat Republic of Salé Tetouan Regency of Tripoli Regency of Tunis

Commanders

16th century	Aruj Hayreddin Barbarossa Sayyida al Hurra Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis Occhiali Salah Rais Murat Reis the Elder Kemal Reis Aydın Reis Muhammad I Pasha Hasan Corso Muhammad Kurdogli Hasan Agha Hasan Pasha Arnaut Mami Hassan Veneziano Sinan Reis Dragut
17th century	Jan Janszoon Salé Rovers Anglo-Turkish piracy Sulayman Reis Ahmed el Inglizi Omar Agha Ali Bitchin Simon Reis Yusuf Reis
18th century	Ahmed Karamanli Yusuf Karamanli
19th century	Ali Khodja Hussein Dey Omar Agha Mohamed Kharnadji Haji Ali Baba Mohammed ben-Osman

Diplomacy
Franco-Ottoman alliance Anglo-Moroccan alliance Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship US Treaty with Tripoli (1796) US Treaty with Tunis (1797) US Treaty with Tripoli (1805) US Treaty with Algiers (1815) US Treaty with Tunis (1824) US Treaty with Morocco (1836)

Conflicts

16th century	Ottoman raid on the Balearic Islands (1501) Capture of Algiers (1516) Fall of Tlemcen (1518) Battle of Pianosa (1519) Siege of Rhodes (1522) Battle of Formentera (1529) Capture of Peñón of Algiers (1529) Conquest of Tunis (1534) Conquest of Tunis (1535) Sack of Mahón (1535) Siege of Corfu (1537) Battle of Preveza (1538) Siege of Castelnuovo (1539) Battle of Alboran (1540) Siege of Nice (1543) Ottoman wintering in Toulon (1543-1544) Capture of Mahdiye (1550) Invasion of Gozo (1551) Siege of Tripoli (1551) Battle of Ponza (1552) Invasion of Corsica (1553) Capture of Bougie (1555) Siege of Oran (1556) Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands (1558) Battle of Wadi al-Laban (1558) Expedition to Mostaganem (1558) Battle of Djerba (1560) Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (1563) Great Siege of Malta (1565) Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–71) Battle of Lepanto (1571) Conquest of Tunis (1574) Sack of Sori (1584)
17th century	Expulsion of the Moriscos (1609) Franco-Algerian War (1609–28) Raid on Żejtun (1614) Battle of Cape Corvo (1615) Dutch–Barbary War (1618–22) Anglo-Algerian War (1620–1621) Action of 3 October 1624 Dutch expedition to Algiers (1624) Turkish Abductions (1627) Sack of Baltimore (1631) Raid on Ceriale and Borghetto (1637) Cretan War (1645–69) Action of March 1665 Anglo-Algerian War (1677–82) French-Tripolitania War (1681–85) Bombardment of Algiers (1682) Bombardment of Algiers (1683) Morean War (1684–99) Bombardment of Algiers (1688) Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727) Battle of the Oinousses Islands (1695)
18th century	Dutch–Algerian War (1715–26) Spanish conquest of Oran (1732) Action of 28 November 1751 Battle of Cape Palos (1758) Danish–Algerian War (1769–72) Siege of Melilla (1774–75) Dutch–Moroccan War (1775–77) Invasion of Algiers (1775) Bombardment of Algiers (1783) Bombardments of Tunisia (1784–92) Bombardment of Algiers (1784) Moroccan seizure of the Betsey (1784) American-Algerian War (1785–95) Portuguese Algerian War (1790–1813) Siege of Oran (1790–1792) Bombardment of Tangier (1791) 1st Swedish-Algerian War (1791–92) 2nd Swedish-Algerian War (1796-1802) Action of 16 May 1797
19th century	First Barbary War (1801–05) Second Barbary War (1815) Bombardment of Algiers (1816) Battle of Tripoli (1825) Bombardment of Tripoli (1828) Austrian expedition against Morocco (1829–30) Invasion of Algiers (1830)

Slavery
Barbary slave trade Slavery on the Barbary Coast Bagnio Lazarists Monte della Redenzione degli Schiavi Redemptorists Trinitarians

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