Attack on Zuwarah

Attack on Zuwarah (1552)
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars
Zuwarah on the west of Libya.
Date 18 August 1552 Location Zuwarah Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Hospitaller Malta	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Leone Strozzi (WIA) Tommaso Cilia Guimeran De Valette	Murad Agha
Strength
1,300 men 16 Galleys	4,000 men
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Unknown

The Attack on Zuwarah was a military expedition launched by Knights Hospitallers of Malta to sack the Libyan city of Zuwarah. The attack ended in a fiasco for the Maltese knights, who sustained heavy losses.