This minor naval action took place in March 1665 near
Goletta
La Goulette (, it, La Goletta), in Arabic Halq al-Wadi ( '), is a municipality and the port of Tunis, Tunisia.
La Goulette is located at around on a sandbar between Lake Tūnis and the Gulf of Tunis. The port, located 12km east of Tunis, is th ...
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Tunisia
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, and was a victory for a small French force of four ships and two fireships under the
Duc de Beaufort
Duke of Beaufort (French: ''duc de Beaufort'') was a title in the French nobility.
History
The dukedom was first created in 1597 as a Peerage of France, peerage for Gabrielle d'Estrées, Marchioness of Monceaux, the mistress of King Henry IV o ...
over an
Algerine force. Three Algerine ships were sunk, including one of 46 guns.
References
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Naval battles involving France
Naval battles involving Ottoman Algeria
Conflicts in 1665
Military history of Tunisia
1660s in the Ottoman Empire
1665 in Africa