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Battle of Formentera (1529)
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Date	1529
Location	Formentera
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Rodrigo Portuondo †	Aydın Reis
Strength
8 galleys	unknown
Casualties and losses
7 galleys captured and soldiers taken as prisoner	unknown

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The Battle of Formentara occurred on 28 October 1529 when an Ottoman fleet under Aydın Reis routed a small Spanish fleet of eight galleys off the island of Formentera near Ibiza.^[1]^[2]

Habsburg emperor Charles V had sent a small Spanish fleet of eight galleys under the Spanish commander of the Castilla fleet, Rodrigo Portuondo, to eliminate Barbary ships from Algiers under Caccia Diavolo which were raiding the coast of Valencia and ferrying Moriscos from Spain to Algeria.^[3]

Portuondo was killed in the battle, seven of his eight galleys were captured, and his soldiers were taken as slaves to the recently conquered city of Algiers,^[2] and 1000 Muslim galley slaves has been liberated.^[4]

Notes

^ Pillaging the empire: piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 by Kris E. Lane p.15 [1]
^ ^a ^b Garnier, p.27
^ Garnier, p.26
^ Rogerson, Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 285 [2]

References

Garnier, Edith L'Alliance Impie Editions du Felin, 2008, Paris ISBN 978-2-86645-678-8 Interview

38°42′N 1°27′E / 38.700°N 1.450°E / 38.700; 1.450

[1] Pillaging the empire: piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 by Kris E. Lane p.15 [1]

[Garnier-p27-2] Garnier, p.27

[3] Garnier, p.26

[4] Rogerson, Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 285 [2]

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 Habsburg emperor [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] had sent a small Spanish fleet of eight galleys under the Spanish commander of the Castilla fleet, Rodrigo Portuondo, to eliminate [[Barbary]] ships from [[Algiers]] under [[Aydın Reis|Caccia Diavolo]] which were raiding the coast of [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]] and ferrying [[Moriscos]] from Spain to Algeria.<ref>Garnier, p.26</ref>
-Portuondo was killed in the battle, seven of his eight galleys were captured, and his soldiers were taken as slaves to the [[Capture of Algiers (1529)|recently conquered]] city of [[Algiers]].<ref name="Garnier-p27" />
+Portuondo was killed in the battle, seven of his eight galleys were captured, and his soldiers were taken as slaves to the [[Capture of Algiers (1529)|recently conquered]] city of [[Algiers]],<ref name="Garnier-p27" /> and 1000 Muslim galley slaves has been liberated.<ref>Rogerson, Barnaby, The last crusaders: the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world, p. 285 [https://archive.org/details/lastcrusadershun0000roge/page/285/mode/1up]</ref>
 ==Notes==