Occhiali

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OcchialiTemplate:Efn (born Giovanni DionigiTemplate:Efn Galeni; Template:C. – 21 June 1587), also known as Uluj Ali, was an Italian privateer and admiral who served as the commander of the Regency of Algiers and Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) of the Ottoman fleet.

Born Giovanni Dionigi Galeni, he was also known by several other names in the Christian countries of the Mediterranean and in the literature also appears under various names. Miguel de Cervantes called him Uchali in chapter XXXIX of his Don Quixote de la Mancha. Elsewhere he was simply called Ali Pasha. John Wolf, in his The Barbary Coast, refers to him as Euldj Ali.

Early life

Template:See also Giovanni Dionigi Galeni was born to the seaman Birno Galeni and his wife Pippa de Cicco, in the village of Le Castella (near modern Isola di Capo Rizzuto) in Calabria, Kingdom of Naples.<ref name=corsari>Corsari nel Mediterraneo: Uluç Ali Reis (Occhiali, Uluj Ali)</ref> His father wanted him to receive a religious education, but on 29 April 1536, when he was about 17, Giovanni was captured by Ali Ahmed, one of the corsair captains of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, and was forced to serve as a galley slave.<ref name=corsari/> As an oar slave in an Ottoman galley, he participated in the Battle of Preveza in 1538.<ref name=corsari/> Within a few years, he converted to Islam and became a corsair in the fleet of Turgut Reis by 1541.<ref name=corsari/> This was not unusual at the time as many Muslim corsairs (privateers) were captured slaves who converted to Islam.<ref name=corsari/>

He was a very able mariner and soon rose in the ranks, gaining sufficient prize booty to buy a share in a corsair brigantine sailing out of Algiers.<ref name=corsari/> Further success soon enabled him to become the captain and owner of a galley, and he gained a reputation as one of the boldest corsair reis on the Barbary Coast.<ref name=corsari/> Uluj Ali was in the fleet of Turgut Reis, one of the most famous corsairs in the Mediterranean, as well as an Ottoman admiral and Bey of Tripoli.<ref name=corsari/> Sailing with Turgut Reis, he also impressed the Ottoman admiral Piyale Pasha, with whom Turgut joined forces on a number of occasions.<ref name=corsari/> Due to his success in battles, the administration of the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea was awarded to him in 1550.<ref name=corsari/> In 1560, he was among the forces of Turgut Reis and Piyale Pasha during the Battle of Djerba.<ref>Bizimsahife.com: Battle of Djerba (1560)</ref> In 1565 he was promoted to the rank of Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of Alexandria.<ref name=corsari/> The same year he joined the Siege of Malta with the Ottoman Egyptian fleet, and when Turgut Reis was killed during the siege, Piyale Pasha appointed Uluj Ali to become Turgut's successor as Bey of Tripoli.<ref name=corsari/> Uluj took Turgut's body to Tripoli for burial, assumed control of the province, and was subsequently confirmed as Pasha of Tripoli by Sultan Suleiman I.<ref name=corsari/> In the following years he conducted numerous raids on the coasts of Sicily, Calabria and Naples.<ref name=corsari/>

Pasha of Algiers

In March 1568, the vice-regency of Algiers fell vacant, and upon the recommendation of Piyale Pasha, Sultan Selim II appointed Uluj Ali to become the Pasha and Beylerbey of Algiers, the most powerful of the increasingly autonomous Ottoman eyalets in North Africa, which were governed by the corsair-admirals appointed by the Sultan.<ref name=corsari/> In October 1569 he turned upon the Hafsid Sultan Moulay Ahmad of Tunis, who had been restored to his throne by Spain.<ref name=corsari/> Marching overland with an army of some 5000, he quickly sent Hamid and his forces fleeing and made himself ruler of Tunis. Hamid found refuge in the Spanish fort at La Goulette outside Tunis.<ref name=corsari/>

In July 1570, while ostensibly en route to Constantinople to ask the Sultan for more ships and men in order to evict the Spaniards from all of North Africa, Uluj Ali encountered five Maltese galleys, commanded by Francisco de Sant Clement, then the captain-general of the Order's galleys, near Cape Passaro in Sicily and captured four of them in the action of 1570.<ref name=corsari/> (Sant Clement escaped, but on returning to Malta was condemned, strangled and his body put in a sack and dumped into the harbor.<ref name=corsari/>) This victory caused Uluj to change his mind and return to Algiers in order to celebrate. There, in early 1571, he was faced with a mutiny of the janissaries who demanded overdue pay.<ref name=corsari/> He decided to put to sea, leaving the mutinous soldiers to take their pay from anyone they could find and rob.<ref name=corsari/> Having learned of the presence of a large Ottoman fleet at Coron in the Morea, he decided to join it.<ref name=corsari/> It was the fleet commanded by Müezzinzade Ali Pasha that was to meet disaster at Lepanto a few months later.<ref name=corsari/>

Lepanto

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On 7 October 1571, Uluj Ali commanded the left flank of Ali Pasha's fleet in the Battle of Lepanto. He kept his squadron together in the melee, outmaneuvered his direct opponent, Giovanni Andrea Doria, and captured the flagship of the Maltese Knights with its great banner.<ref name=corsari/> When the Ottoman defeat became obvious, he succeeded in extricating his ships, and gathered up the scattered remaining ships of the Ottoman fleet (some forty galleys and fustas) and others along the way to Constantinople, where he arrived with 87 vessels.<ref name=corsari/> There he presented the great flag of the Knights of Malta to Sultan Selim II, who gave him the honorary title of Kılıç ("Sword") and on 29 October 1571 appointed him as Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral) and Beylerbey of the Isles. He was subsequently known as Kılıç Ali Pasha.Template:Citation needed

Kapudan Pasha (1572–1587)

Template:See also Piyale Pasha and Kılıç Ali Pasha immediately began to rebuild the Ottoman fleet. Kılıç Ali Pasha placed special emphasis on the construction of a number of heavier ships modeled upon the Venetian galleasses, heavier artillery for the galleys, and firearms for the soldiers on board.<ref name=corsari/> In June 1572, now Kapudan Pasha, he set out with 250 galleys and a large number of smaller ships to seek revenge for Lepanto.<ref name=corsari/> He found the Christian fleet anchored in an inlet of Morea, but his strategy of trying to lure the enemy out and inflicting damage through repeated quick thrusts meant that a full-fledged battle never materialized because the Christian fleet was too cautious to be trapped and encircled.<ref name=corsari/>

In 1573 Kılıç Ali Pasha commanded the naval campaign on the coasts of Italy.<ref name=corsari/> In that same year, the regency of Algiers was transferred to Arab Ahmed, and Don Juan of Austria, the victor of Lepanto, recaptured Tunis.<ref name=corsari/> In July 1574, Kılıç Ali Pasha sailed to Tunis with a fleet of 250 galleys and a large army under the command of Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, captured the port fortress of La Goulette on 25 August 1574, and the city of Tunis on 13 September 1574.<ref name=KMS>Template:Cite book</ref> During this expedition, on 26 July 1574, the forces of Kılıç Ali Pasha constructed an Ottoman fortress on the coastline of Morocco, facing Andalusia in mainland Spain.<ref>Tarih Sitesi: Kılıç Ali Paşa</ref>

In 1576 he raided Calabria and in 1578 put down another mutiny of the janissaries in Algiers who had assassinated Arab Ahmed.<ref name=corsari/> In 1584 he commanded a naval expedition to Crimea.<ref name=corsari/> In 1585 he put down revolts in Syria and Lebanon with the Ottoman Egyptian fleet based in Alexandria.<ref name=corsari/>

Kılıç Ali Pasha died on 21 June 1587 in Constantinople (Istanbul). He is buried at the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque (1580), designed by the architect Mimar Sinan.

Legacy

He built the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque (1580) and Baths (1583) in Istanbul.
Several warships and submarines of the Turkish Navy have been named after him (see Kılıç class fast attack missile boat and Template:Sclass).
His statue is in the center square of Le Castella in Calabria, Italy, where he was born.

Uluç Ali Reis bust at the Mersin Naval Museum.

Uluç Ali Reis bust at the Mersin Naval Museum.
Ottoman troops (about 5,000 janissaries) led by Uluj Ali, then Pasha of Algiers, marching on Tunis in 1569.

Ottoman troops (about 5,000 janissaries) led by Uluj Ali, then Pasha of Algiers, marching on Tunis in 1569.
Statue of Uluj Ali in his hometown of Le Castella, Italy.

Statue of Uluj Ali in his hometown of Le Castella, Italy.

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Miguel de Cervantes, in chapter XXXIX of his classic El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, mentions Uluç Ali under the name of "Uchali", describing briefly his rise to the regency of Algiers.
John B. Wolf, The Barbary Coast: Algeria under the Turks, W.W. Norton, New York/London, 1979, Template:ISBN.
Hugh Bicheno, Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571, Phoenix Paperback, 2004, Template:ISBN
E. Hamilton Currey, Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean, London, 1910
Bono, Salvatore: Corsari nel Mediterraneo (Corsairs in the Mediterranean), Oscar Storia Mondadori. Perugia, 1993.
Corsari nel Mediterraneo: Condottieri di ventura. Online database in Italian, based on Salvatore Bono's book.
Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: The life of Barbarossa, London, 1968.
The Ottomans: Comprehensive and detailed online chronology of Ottoman history in English.
Turkish Navy official website: Historic heritage of the Turkish Navy (in Turkish)

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