Tag: Capture

01 Work, The Art of War, Flemish School’s The Capture of Tunis, 1535, with footnotes

Dec 4, 2023

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Sold for GBP 325,000 in Dec 2020 The Conquest of Tunis (1535) was a battle of the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars that was fought between a Habsburg/Christian alliance (backed by the Hafsid dynasty) and the Ottoman Empire (backed by two French galleys). The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, assembled an invasion force of 60,000 troops and 398 ships…