The most powerful European attack on Algeria, he promised extermination but threw his crown into the sea.
To exterminate the vile Algerine race. This was the saying of the Great Emperor Charles V of Europe, so what’s his story? After the fall of Andalusia in 1492 and after its Muslims fled to the coasts of Tlemcen, Oran and some Moroccan cities European Christian monarchies encouraged more and began conducting naval raids…