Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha

Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha

Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha or Hasan Pasha of Algiers (1713 - 1790) was an Ottoman captain, Grand Admiral (1770-1790), Grand Vizier (1790) and general of the late 18th century.

He is known to have been bought as a Georgian[1] slave in eastern Turkey by a Turkish merchant of Tekirdağ, who raised him in that city considering him on a par with his own sons.

He rose through the ranks of the Ottoman military hierarchy and was for a time with the Barbary Coast pirates based in Algiers (whence his name Cezayirli, meaning "from Algiers" in Turkish). He was a fleet commander during the Battle of Chesma aboard the Real Mustafa and was able to extract the forces under his command from the general disaster for the Turkish navy that occurred there. He arrived at the Ottoman capital with the bad news, but was highly praised for his own accomplishment and promoted, first to chief of staff and later to grand vizier. He dislodged the Russian fleet which had established a base on the Aegean island of Limni.

Anecdotal evidence indicates that, immediately after the defeat at Chesma, he and his men were lodged by a local priest in Ayvalık who did not know who they were. Hasan Pasha did not forget the kindness shown at that hour of crisis and later accorded virtual autonomy to the Greek-dominated town of Ayvalık, paving the way for its becoming an important cultural center for that community in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.

The defeat also prompted Hasan Pasha to establish the Naval Engineering Golden Horn Shipyard (later Turkish Naval Academy) in 1773.

In the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792, Hasan Pasha (then 85) commanded the Turkish troops in the beginning campaigns, taking part in the Action of 17 June 1788, the Battle of Fidonisi, and the Siege of Ochakov.

He died in March, 1790, from illness or perhaps poisoned.

His statue today graces the resort town of Çeşme, along with the lion that domesticated while in Africa and took along with him everywhere.

References

Sources

  • Nuttall Encyclopedia: [1]
  • World Statesman: Turkey – Grand Viziers
  • J.H. Mordtmann, in E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 2, p 1039 [2]
Preceded by
Cenaze Hasan Pasha
Grand Vizier
2 January 1790 - 30 March 1790
Succeeded by
Çelebizade Şerif Hasan Pasha

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.


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