Expedition to Mostaganem (1558)

Expedition of Mostaganem
	Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
Date	August–September 1558
Location	Mostaganem, Algeria35°56′00″N 0°05′00″E / 35.9333°N 0.08333°E
Result	Algerian Victory
Belligerents
Spain	Regency of Algiers ; Kingdom of Beni Abbas
Commanders and leaders
Count Alcaudete †	Hasan Pasha ; Abdelaziz El Abbes
Strength
12,000+ soldiers	Unknown
Casualties and losses
6,000 killed, 6,000 prisoners	Unknown
	Expedition of Mostaganem class=notpageimage\| Location of the Expedition of Mostaganem in Algeria.

The Expedition of Mostaganem occurred in 1558, when Spanish forces attempted to capture the city of Mostaganem. The expedition was supposed to be a decisive step in the conquest of the Ottoman base of Algiers, but it ended in failure, and has been called a "disaster".^[4]

^ Hugh Roberts, Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria , IB Tauris , 2014, p. 195
^ Gaïd, Mouloud (1975). L'Algérie sous les Turcs (in French). Maison tunisienne de l'édition.
^ ^a ^b Micheal Clodfelter (9 May 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-7864-7470-7.
^ Cervantes in Algiers: a captive's tale by María Antonia Garcés p.25

[1] Hugh Roberts, Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria , IB Tauris , 2014, p. 195

[2] Gaïd, Mouloud (1975). L'Algérie sous les Turcs (in French). Maison tunisienne de l'édition.

[Clodfelter2017-3] Micheal Clodfelter (9 May 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-7864-7470-7.

[Garcés_25-4] Cervantes in Algiers: a captive's tale by María Antonia Garcés p.25

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