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Siege of Nice

Siege of Nice
Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars
Siége de la flotte turc.jpg
French fleet with Barbarossa at the Siege of Nice 1543.jpg
Top: In the Siege of Nice in 1543, a combined Franco-Ottoman force captured the city.
Bottom: Ottoman depiction of the siege of Nice by Matrakçı Nasuh.
Date 6–22 August 1543
Location Nice, Savoy
Result Ottomans and French sack Nice.
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire
Savoy
Genoa
Osmanli-devleti-nisani-yeni.png Ottoman Empire
France
Commanders and leaders
Charles V
Charles III
Andrea Doria
Osmanli-devleti-nisani-yeni.png Hayreddin Barbarossa
Osmanli-devleti-nisani-yeni.png Salih Reis
François de Bourbon
Strength
Osmanli-devleti-nisani-yeni.png 100 galleys
Osmanli-devleti-nisani-yeni.png 30,000 soldiers
50 galleys
Casualties and losses
4 galleys
5,000 captives.

The Siege of Nice occurred in 1543 and was part of the Italian War of 1542–46 in which Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent collaborated in a Franco-Ottoman alliance against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and Henry VIII of England. At that time, Nice was under the control of Charles III, Duke of Savoy, an ally of Charles V. This is part of the 1543–1544 Mediterranean campaign of Barbarossa.

In the Mediterranean, active naval collaboration took place between France and the Ottoman Empire to fight against Spanish forces, following a request by Francis I, conveyed by Antoine Escalin des Aimars. The French forces, led by François de Bourbon, and the Ottoman forces, led by Hayreddin Barbarossa, first joined at Marseilles in August 1543. Although the Duchy of Savoy, of which Nice was a part, had been a French protectorate for a century, Francis I chose to attack the city of Nice with the allied force, mainly because Charles III, Duke of Savoy had angered him by marrying Beatrice of Portugal, thus becoming an ally of the Habsburgs.


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