{"id":1140,"date":"2015-06-15T02:28:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blida.net\/fra\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2015-06-18T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T00:33:29","slug":"200-ieme-anniversaire-de-la-mort-de-lamiral-rais-hamidou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blida.net\/fra\/2015\/06\/15\/200-ieme-anniversaire-de-la-mort-de-lamiral-rais-hamidou\/","title":{"rendered":"200 i\u00e8me anniversaire de la mort de l’amiral Rais Hamidou"},"content":{"rendered":"

En ce 17 juin 2015, ce sera le 200 i\u00e8me anniversaire de la mort de l’amiral Rais Hamidou, le l\u00e9gendaire marin alg\u00e9rien du d\u00e9but 19i\u00e8me si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n

\"carte<\/a>
carte du cap gatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

En effet, en ce jour fatidique du 17 juin 1815 et au cours d’une bataille qui s’est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e pr\u00e8s du cap gatt proche de l’espagne, Rais Hamidou,, commandant du naviral amiral chebek Mashouda ou Messaouda en arabe, fut atteint par un boulet de canon tir\u00e9 par la fr\u00e9gate \u00a0\u00bb la guerri\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb conduite par le commodore Stephen Decatur de la marine am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n

\"Cable<\/a>
Cable du 19 juin 1815 indiquant la mort du Rais Hamidou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Commodore<\/a>
Commodore Decatur Stephen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ce fut la fin d’un Rais hors pair\u00a0et\u00a0qui fut le seul amiral de l’histoire \u00a0\u00e0 n’avoir jamais baiss\u00e9 ses couleurs devant l’ennemi. Il sillona la m\u00e9diterran\u00e9e et l’oc\u00e9an atlantique allant jusqu’aux cotes canadiennes (Terre-neuve) [4] et am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n

Une des cons\u00e9quences de sa mort fut l’affaiblissement de la flotte alg\u00e9rienne de l’\u00e9poque et cela\u00a0conduisit indirectement \u00e0 la d\u00e9b\u00e2cle de 1830.<\/p>\n

Un de ses \u00a0plus haut fait d’armes fut la capture en 1802 d’une\u00a0fr\u00e9gate portugaise de 40 canons avec 282 prisonniers. Il s’empara, durant sa longue carri\u00e8re de 1795 \u00e0 1815, de plus de 200 navires.<\/p>\n

Un passage dans le livre de Signor\u00a0PANANTI, raconte la capture de la fr\u00e9gate portuguaise:<\/p>\n

While only in the command of a\u00a0<\/em>small shabeque, he evinced many proofs of ability, and made several<\/em>
\nvaluable prizes ; extending his cruizes as far as Madeira, and the\u00a0<\/em>banks of Newfoundland, where he was also very successful against\u00a0<\/em>the Americans. But the grand enterprize, which acquired him so\u00a0<\/em>much popularity, placing his name on a level with those of Sinan\u00a0<\/em>and Dragut, was his capture of a large Portuguese frigate, the very<\/em>
\nship in which, as grand admiral, he was destined to make slaves of\u00a0<\/em>myself and companions. For this singular instance of good fortune,\u00a0<\/em>he was, however, indebted to a ruse de guerre, aided by the inadvertency<\/em>
\nof the Portuguese captain, who having communicated with an\u00a0<\/em>English frigate, and lost sight of her, shortly after saw another,\u00a0<\/em>which from the weather’s being rather foggy, he took to be the same\u00a0<\/em>ship, and consequently made no preparations for action. It happened,\u00a0<\/em>however, to be the corsair of Rais Hamida, who displaying an<\/em>
\nEnglish ensign, approached the unsuspecting Portuguese ; and was\u00a0<\/em>not discovered until he came within hail, upon which he immediately\u00a0<\/em>laid the enemy on board, and by a coup de main took possession of\u00a0<\/em>his prize, before the officers and crew had time even to arm for their\u00a0<\/em>defence.
\n<\/em>
\nOnce, while in the neighbourhood of Pantellaria, he made so\u00a0<\/em>many friendly signals, as to induce the commandant to believe,\u00a0<\/em>that his was a British ship of war. With this idea he went off to\u00a0<\/em>Hamida’s ship, and was not only retained, but loaded with chains.<\/em><\/p>\n

R\u00e9f\u00e9rences<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0http:\/\/www.navalhistory.org\/2010\/05\/20\/commodore-stephen-decatur-and-the-war-on-algiers<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ra%C3%AFs_Hamidou<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rais_Hamidou<\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0NARRATIVE\u00a0OF A\u00a0RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS by\u00a0SIGNOR PANANTI, London 1818<\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Decatur<\/p>\n

Mise \u00e0 jour le 17 juin 2015:<\/strong><\/p>\n