Sack of Naples explained

Conflict:	Sack of Naples
Date:	1544
Place:	Naples, Italy
Result:	Algerian victory Capture of the Bay of Naples 7,000-50,000 enslaved^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Combatant1:	Kingdom of Naples
Combatant2:	Regency of Algiers
Strength1:	Unknown
Strength2:	Unknown
Casualties1:	7,000 enslaved
Casualties2:	Unknown

The sack of Naples occurred in 1544 when Algerians captured the Bay of Naples and enslaved 7,000 Italians.

In 1544 Algerian corsairs sailed into the Bay of Naples and captured it. They then took an astounding amount of 7,000 Italian slaves.

The number of slaves taken by the Algerians drove the price of slaves so low that it was said “you could swap a Christian for an onion”.^[4] Moreover, it was said to be “raining Christians in Algiers”.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=CQnvAAAAMAAJ&q=1544+naples+algerians The Barnes Review
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=L-B0CgAAQBAJ&dq=1544+naples+algerians&pg=PA22 Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=grlUBAAAQBAJ&dq=1544+naples+algiers&pg=PA43 Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=rCoNEAAAQBAJ&dq=algerians+naples+slaves&pg=PA62 Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature