Francis, increasingly embarrassed by the Ottoman presence,…
May 1544 CE
Francis, increasingly embarrassed by the Ottoman presence, is unwilling to help Barbarossa recapture Tunis; therefore, the Ottoman fleet—accompanied by five French galleys under Antoine Escalin des Aimars—sails for Istanbul in May 1544, pillaging the Neapolitan coast along the way.
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Ottoman-Habsburg Wars
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Protestant Reformation
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Little War in Hungary
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Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
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Anglo-Scottish War of 1542-49 (War of The Rough Wooing)
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Anglo-French War of 1542-46
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Italian War of 1542-6, or Italian War between Charles V and Francis I, Fourth
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