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Three battles have been known as the Battle of Lepanto : •Battle of Lepanto (1499), Ottoman victory during the Ottoman-Venetian Wars •Battle of Lepanto (1500), an Ottoman victory during the Ottoman-...
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The Battle of Lepanto was a key naval engagement during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Meeting in the Gulf of Patras, the forces of the Holy League succeeded in defeating the Ottoman fleet and ending Turkish expansion in the Mediterranean. ... Ottoman-Habsburg Wars: Battle of Lepanto...
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Battle of Lepanto ... Not many know that at the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Spain, one can view a huge warship lantern that was captured from the Moslems in the Battle of Lepanto. In Rome, look up to the ceiling of S. Maria in Aracoeli and behold decorations in gold taken from the Turkish galleys.
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; Fresco of the Lepanto battle plan by Antonio Danti ... The Battle of Lepanto was a decisive victory, with only 40 of the over 300 Moslem ships surviving the engagement. The Turkish force of some 75,000 men was in ruins. The battle, although a great victory for Catholic Europe, did not end the threat of invasion,
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he future author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, served on one of the Christian galleys in what he called the greatest naval sea battle in history and the most important to that time for the safety of Europe. It was the year 1571 when that fleet was gathered near a port in Greece, not far from the Gulf of Lepanto.
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X, xxxviii, 10). After the battle of Ægospotami (404 B.C.), ... Occupied by the Turks in 1498, Lepanto is chiefly celebrated for the victory which the combined papal, Spanish, Venetian, and Genoese fleets, under Don John of Austria, gained over the Turkish fleet on 7 Oct., 1571. The latter had 208 galleys and 66 small ships;
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The Battle of Lepanto by Joe Palmer [ opinion - january 04 ] "Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword." - Steven Runciman, 'A History of the Crusades'
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Today, Christians quietly recall the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, Oct. 7, 1571. On that date the forces of Islam battled the Holy League in a crucial engagement at Lepanto, the modern day Gulf of Corinth.
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Finally, and least obviously, human factors affected the way in which galleys were designed and fitted out, a point which is crucial to an understanding of the battle of Lepanto and of Mediterranean armed conflict at sea in general.
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