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People: Gaetano Donizetti
Topic: Oran, Siege of
Location: Eldgjá Sudurland Iceland

Oran, Siege of

Years: 1556 - 1556

The Siege of Oran of 1556 occurs when Ottoman troops from Algiers besiege the Spanish garrison in Oran.

The siege, by land and sea, is unsuccessful and has to be lifted in August 1556 when the Ottoman fleet of forty galleys is recalled for duty in the East Mediterranean

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)