1793–95 Tripolitanian civil war
1793 CE to 1795 CE
The 1793–95 Tripolitanian civil war is a conflict that occurs in what is today the country of Libya.
Ali Benghul, an Ottoman officer, deposes Hamet Karamanli, the ruler of Tripolitania, who had ruled since the end of the corrupt and ineffective rule of Ali I in 1793.
Hamet and his brother Yusuf return to Tripoli with the aid of the Bey of Tunis and take control of the throne.
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The Karamanli regime, however, declines under Ahmad's successors.
Then in 1793, a Turkish officer, Ali Benghul, overthrows the Karamanlis and restores Tripoli to Ottoman rule.
With the aid of the bey of Tunis, Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli (reigned 1795-1832) returns to Tripoli and installs himself as pasha.
A throwback to the founder of the dynasty, he tames the tribes and defies both the Porte and British naval power to assist Napoleon Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign in 1799.