Omar Agha, Bey of Algiers from April…
June 1815 CE
Omar Agha, Bey of Algiers from April 1815, had launched a war against Tunis, and led the attacks of Barbary privateers on American ships.
Born on the island of Lesbos to a Turkish family as Omar ben Mohammed, he had left for Algiers at an unknown date, and first became a privateer, then a janissary. He soon became Agha of the Odjak of Algiers, the local corps of the janissary militia in the Regency of Algiers.
In an episode known as the Second Barbary War, an expedition of the US Navy led by Commodore Stephen Decatur in command of a squadron of nine ships is conducted in 1815 against the Regency of Algiers. The operation forces Dey Omar to sign a treaty ending attacks of piracy, a treaty that he will later denounce.
Born on the island of Lesbos to a Turkish family as Omar ben Mohammed, he had left for Algiers at an unknown date, and first became a privateer, then a janissary. He soon became Agha of the Odjak of Algiers, the local corps of the janissary militia in the Regency of Algiers.
In an episode known as the Second Barbary War, an expedition of the US Navy led by Commodore Stephen Decatur in command of a squadron of nine ships is conducted in 1815 against the Regency of Algiers. The operation forces Dey Omar to sign a treaty ending attacks of piracy, a treaty that he will later denounce.
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