Attack on Zuwarah

Attack on Zuwarah (1552)
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Zuwarah on the west of Libya.
Date18 August 1552
Location
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Hospitaller Malta Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Leone Strozzi (WIA)
Tommaso Cilia
Guimeran
De Valette
Murad Agha
Strength
1,300 men
16 Galleys
4,000 men
Casualties and losses
Heavy Unknown

The Attack on Zuwarah was a military expedition launched by Knights Hospitallers of Malta to sack the Libyan city of Zuwarah. The attack ended in a fiasco for the Maltese knights, who sustained heavy losses.