Battle o Lepanto

Battle o Lepanto
	Pairt o the Fowert Ottoman-Venetian War an the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
	; The Battle o Lepanto, H. Letter, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich/London.
Date	7 October 1571
Location	Gulf o Patras, Ionian Sea
Result	Decisive Holy League victory
Belligerents
Haly League:; Republic o Venice; Spaingie Empire; Republic o Genoa; Papal States; Grand Duchy o Tuscany; Duchy o Savoy; Duchy o Urbino; Knights o Maltae;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders an leaders
Holy League:; Christian Centre:; John o Austrick; Sebastiano Venier; Marcantonio Colonna; Christian Left:; Agostino Barbarigo †; Christian Richt:; Gianandrea Doria; Christian Reserve:; Álvaro de Bazán	Ottoman Fleet:; Turkis Centre:; Müezzinzade Ali Pasha †; Turkis Richt:; Mehmed Siroco †; Turkish Left:; Uluç Ali Reis
Strenth
212 ships 6 galleasses; 206 galleys; 28,500 sauldiers; 40,000 sailors and oarsmen; 1,815 guns[citation needit]	251 ships 206 galleys; 45 galliots; 31,490 sauldiers; 50,000 sailors an oarsmen; 741 guns (est.)
Casualties an losses
7,500 dead ; 17 ships lost	20,000 dead, woondit or captured; 137 ships captured; 50 ships sunk; 10,000 Christians freed

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.

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

[ATD-1] Drane, Augusta Theodosia (1858). The Knights of st. John: with The battle of Lepanto and Siege of Vienna. London.

[ANG-2] 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.

[TAC-3] George Ripley and Charles A. Dana (1867). The new American cyclopaedia: Volume 10. New York.

[KMS-4] Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Volume 161. Philadelphia.

[WLR-5] 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.

[TurkGunNote-6] 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.

[ReferenceA-7] Confrontation at Lepanto by T.C.F. Hopkins, intro

[Geoffrey_Parker_p._88-8] Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution, p. 88

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