Barbary Crusade, also called the Mahdia Crusade, siege of Mahdia, grand assault on the town of Mahdia, at that time called Africa, 1390
Illustration from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. Info from wiki: During the lulls of the Hundred Years War knights looked for opportunities for glory and honor.[1] As Genoese ambassadors approached the French king Charles VI to subscribe to a crusade, they eagerly supported the plan to fight Muslim pirates from North Africa. These pirates had their main base at Mahdia on the Barbary coast. Genoa was ready to supply ships, supplies, 12,000 archers and 8,000 foot soldiers, if France would provide the knights.[1] The proposal by the doge Antoniotto Adorno was presented as a crusade. As such it would give prestige to its participants, a moratorium on their debts, immunity from lawsuits, and papal indulgence.[2] The French force also included some English participants and consisted of 1,500 knights under the leadership of Louis II, Duke of Bourbon
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