Siege of Butrint (1798)
| Siege of Butrint (1798) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798 | |||||||||
 Agora in Butrint, Albania | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Pashalik of Yanina |
 France | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Ali Pasha of Yanina |
Nicolas Gregoire Aulmont Louis Chabot | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 20,000[1] | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
The siege of Butrint took place on 18–25 October [O.S. 7–14 October] 1798 between Revolutionary France and Ali Pasha of Janina, the ruler of the semi-autonomous Ottoman Pashalik of Yanina.[citation needed]
Background
[edit]The French had seized the Venetian Ionian Islands off the western coast of Greece the previous year, after the fall of the Republic of Venice.[citation needed] The islands also included a few mainland exclaves like Butrint and Preveza, which were coveted by Ali.
Siege
[edit]French efforts to draw Ali into their camp against the Ottoman sultan failed, and when the Ottoman Empire turned against France, Ali attacked the French positions, attacking Butrint first. The French, led by Nicolas Gregoire Aulmont of Verrières and eventually by the French governor-general, Louis François Jean Chabot, resisted for a week, but finally withdrew from the fortress and blew it up. At the same time, Ali Pasha's army moved to capture Preveza to the south.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Russell, Quentin; Russell, Eugenia (2017-09-30). Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-7722-1.
- ↑ Moschonas 1975, pp. 388–389.
- ↑ Fleming 1999, pp. 70–73, 97–100.
Sources
[edit]- Baeyens, Jacques (1973). Les Français à Corfou, 1797-1799 et 1807-1814 [The French in Corfu, 1797-1799 and 1807-1814] (in French). Athens: Institut français d'Athènes. OCLC 2763024.
- Fleming, Katherine Elizabeth (1999). The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-69100194-4.
- Moschonas, Nikolaos (1975). "Τα Ιόνια Νησιά κατά την περίοδο 1797-1821" [The Ionian Islands in the period 1797-1821]. In Christopoulos, Georgios A. & Bastias, Ioannis K. (eds.). Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους [History of the Greek Nation] (in Greek). Vol. ΙΑ: Ο Ελληνισμός υπό ξένη κυριαρχία (περίοδος 1669 - 1821), Τουρκοκρατία - Λατινοκρατία [Hellenism under Foreign Rule (Period 1669 - 1821), Turkocracy – Latinocracy]. Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon. pp. 382–402. ISBN 978-960-213-100-8.
Further reading
[edit]- Bellaire, J. P. (1805). Précis des opérations générales de la division française du Levant (in French). Paris.
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