Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 378 pages of information about Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 378 pages of information about Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean.

Dragut-Reis, 10, 14, 22,
  his birth and parents, 242;
  career, 242;
  offers his services to Barbarossa, 243;
  in command of twelve galleys, 243;
  his destruction ordered, 245, 261;
  captured by Jannetin Doria, 245-247;
  employed as a galley slave, 248;
  ransomed, 248;
  increase of power, 250;
  his desire to capture “Africa,” 251;
  plot with Ibrahim Amburac, 253;
  preparations for the attack, 254-256;
  wounded, 257;
  attack on the city, 257-259;
  pursued by Andrea Doria, 262-264, 271;
  his “Horrid Devastations,” 264;
  in the siege of “Africa,” 265;
  escapes, 267;
  at Constantinople, 269, 276;
  denounced by Charles V., 270;
  appointed Sandjak, or governor, of the island of Santa Maura, 271;
  blockaded at Jerban, 271-275;
  mode of escape, 275;
  hatred of the Knights of Malta, 276, 286;
  autocrat of Tripoli, 309;
  characteristics, 315;
  at the siege of Malta, 329-339;
  mortally wounded, 339;
  death, 341.

Dupuy, Raimond, joins the Hospice of St. John, 288,
  appointed Grand Master, 289;
  forms a military corps, 289.

Eginard, 286.

Egypt, Soldan of, his treatment of the Knights of Saint John, 34,
  besieges Rhodes, 36.

Elmo, St., siege of, 6, 301-305, 323-341,
  appeal of the garrison to abandon the fortress, 335-337;
  their use of fireworks, 339;
  fall, 341.

Escalente, Bernardino de, his “Dialogos del arte militar,” 371.

Esquemelin, John, his literary labours, 1.

Etienne, St., Mount, 294.

Eutemi, Selim, besieges Algiers, 65,
  assassinated, 68.

Exmouth, Lord, bombards Algiers,30.

Famagusta, captured, 362.

Ferdinand V., King of Spain, joins the “Alliance of Christian Princes,” 38,
  his death, 65.

Florence, the, 236.

Floreta, M. de., 144.

Forfait, on the speed of the galley, 234.

Francis I., 14,
  appoints Andrea Doria Captain of his fleet, 101;
  attempts to levy a fine, 102;
  treatment of him, 102;
  fortifies Savona, 103;
  letter from Andrea Doria, 103;
  attempts to take him prisoner, 104;
  refuses to join in the war against Barbarossa, 144;
  treachery, 144.

Fundi, 134,
  sacked by the corsairs, 136.

Galeasse, the, 18,
  description of a, 233.

Galera Capitana, 150,
  number of flags and banners on board, 151.

Galleon of Venice, 192, 194, 208,
  attacked by the Moslems, 209-213;
  victory, 213.

Galley, 2, 18,
  sufferings of the rower, 19, 221;
  innovation in the manning, 185;
  mobility, 222;
  length, 222;
  number of men on board, 223;
  treatment of the slaves, 223-229, 379;
  size, 229;
  mode of opening fire, 230;
  speed, 234;
  obsolete, 236.

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