My favorite Algerian Ghazi Hasan Pasha who always kept a dangerous lion with him who used to act as his guard during the war, sea travel, home market meeting etc. 🦁😎
Ghazi Hasan Pasha, who was paid ransom and passage by the United States of America. After America’s independence, the Ottoman Empire was the only power to impose taxes on Americans, otherwise Americans would have traded on their own terms. 🦁😎
( No taxation without representation being American Slogan during their war of Independence) 🦁😎
Ghazi Hasan Pasha of Algiers (1714-1790)
Also known as ‘Pasha with Lion’. 🦁
He,
Captured a Spanish warship 🇪🇸 when he was just a young janissary. ⚔️ 🦁
He owned that Spanish ship and so, his legendary story began.🦁
Captured and sunk many US 🇺🇸 warships in the Mediterranean.🦁
IMPOSED A TAX on the US. 🇺🇸 (The Ottomans were the first and the only Empire which imposed a tax on the US after their Independence.)🦁😎
His actions caused the foundation of the treaty of Tripoli (in Turkish language) with the US which is also the first and the only treaty written in a foreign language in the US history 🇺🇸. 🦁
The US paid 642.000 Ottoman golds for once and 12.000 golds per year.🦁
Domesticated a Lion in Algiers and used to board the enemy ships with his Lion he captured.🦁
Built a new and modern Ottoman fleet 🇹🇷 within 3 years with his own coins.🦁
Became a grand vizier just before he passed away.🦁
Laid the foundations of today’s naval academies in Turkie.🦁
Had many mosques and schools built.
He died on 19 March 1790, from illness or perhaps poisoned. His statue today graces the resort town of Çeşme, along with the lion that he domesticated while in Africa and took along with him everywhere.
Rahmatullah aleyh!♥️
Zain Alabdeen 🖋️♥️
