Battle o Lepanto
The Battle o Lepanto teuk place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet o the Holy League, a coalition o soothren European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeatit the main fleet o the Ottoman Empire in five oors o fichting on the northren edge o the Gulf o Corinth, off wastren Greece. The Ottoman forces sailin wastwards frae thair naval station in Lepanto (Turkis: İnebahtı; [Ναύπακτος or Έπαχτος Naupaktos or Épahtos] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) met the Holy League forces, which haed come frae Messina, Sicily, whaur thay haed previously gathered.
Battle o Lepanto | |||||||
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Pairt o the Fowert Ottoman-Venetian War an the Ottoman-Habsburg wars | |||||||
![]() The Battle o Lepanto, H. Letter, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich/London. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders an leaders | |||||||
Holy League:[1][2] Christian Centre: ![]() ![]() ![]() Christian Left: ![]() Christian Richt: ![]() Christian Reserve: ![]() |
Ottoman Fleet:[3][4] Turkis Centre: Müezzinzade Ali Pasha † Turkis Richt: Mehmed Siroco † Turkish Left: Uluç Ali Reis | ||||||
Strenth | |||||||
212 ships[2]
28,500 sauldiers[5] |
251 ships
31,490 sauldiers | ||||||
Casualties an losses | |||||||
7,500 dead 17 ships lost[7] |
20,000 dead, woondit or captured[7][8] 137 ships captured 50 ships sunk 10,000 Christians freed |
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Drane, Augusta Theodosia (1858). The Knights of st. John: with The battle of Lepanto and Siege of Vienna. London.
- ↑ a b c Konstam, Angus (2003). Lepanto 1571: The Greatest Naval Battle Of The Renaissance. Unitit Kinrick: Osprey Publishing. pp. 20–23. ISBN 1-84176-409-4. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ↑ George Ripley and Charles A. Dana (1867). The new American cyclopaedia: Volume 10. New York.
- ↑ Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Volume 161. Philadelphia.
- ↑ Rodgers, William Ledyard (1939). Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries: A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. United States: Naval Institute Press. p. 175. ISBN 9780870214875.
- ↑ The number of Turkish guns is said to be deduced from the list of booty after the battle. These lists are unlikely to be complete.
- ↑ a b Confrontation at Lepanto by T.C.F. Hopkins, intro
- ↑ Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution, p. 88