الأسطول البحري الجزائري خلال العهد العثماني

Abstract

Before the Ottoman presence, Algeria experienced a political rupture and many Spanish harassments, which led to the emergence of the Ottomans and the emergence of their role in repelling the crusader aggression, and the emergence of Algeria as a strong nation after its accession to the Ottoman Empire, where he poured most of their interest in strengthening the naval force to repel the aggression and they were interested in the construction of the Algerian naval fleet, which included only four pieces, but supported other pieces then, which made it develop rapidly, which enabled him to extend his control over the western basin of the Mediterranean for 3 centuries . Further strengthened and dominated by repeated European attacks, this prestige prompted the Algerian Government to tax ships cruising across the Mediterranean in exchange for protection, and all foreign countries, including France, the Netherlands, Spain, England, the United States of America and others, were the basis for imposing Algeria's prestige internationally. It also occupied a special place in the caliphate state, where it enjoyed full independence, enabled it to link political and trade relations with most of the countries of the world, and concluded dozens of treaties with the countries of the world, thanks to its fleet, where it reached such a great power that it was able to establish a navigation system in the Mediterranean that guarantees the security of the Algerian administration in particular, the Ottoman State in general, and more generally for international trade in this sea, which made the European countries work to end this system under the cover of ending what they called Piracy, while it is in fact a maritime jihad, although the masses of European adventurers were practicing it with the consent of their countries, France initiated at the Vienna Conference (1814-1815) to raise the issue of the Algerian ism, and the conference agreed to destroy this country. At the X-La Spiel conference in 1819, where European countries agreed to the idea of eliminating Algeria and assigned the mission to France and England, and the conditions for the invasion were created when the freedom of the two countries was able to destroy the Algerian fleet, which was obsessed with fear in the battle In 1827, Algerian control of the Mediterranean