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The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
On 7 October 1571, the League won a decisive victory over the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in the Gulf of Patras. [3] The fleet of the Holy League in this engagement consisted of 212 warships (206 galleys and 6 galleasses, the modern large galleys developed by Venice) with 1,815 guns and carrying 28,500 infantry soldiers. The majority ...
Holy League (1538), a short-lived alliance of Catholic states against the Ottoman Empire; Holy League (1571), an alliance of major Catholic maritime states which defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Lepanto; Holy League (1594), a military alliance of Christian countries against the Ottoman Empire
However, the movement lacked the necessary organization. They were instigated and assisted by western powers; mainly by the Republic of Venice, and the victory of the Holy League against the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Lepanto, in November 1571, triggered further revolutionary activity. However, Venice withdrew its support to the rebels and ...
This is the order of battle during the Battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571 in which the Holy League deployed 6 galleasses and 206 galleys, while the Ottoman forces numbered 216 galleys and 56 galliots.
There were several wars of the Holy League in European history: The part of the War of the League of Cambrai from 1511 to 1514; War of the Holy League (1538-1540) centered on the Battle of Preveza (1538) and Siege of Castelnuovo (1539) Part of the Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War from 1570 to 1573 centered on the battle of Lepanto
Medrano's Fortuna de Napoli galley participated at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, a naval engagement won by the Holy League against the Ottoman Turks. In 1571, Diego de Medrano was a captain in the Holy League and participated in the victorious Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. [6]
The Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War, also known as the War of Cyprus (Italian: Guerra di Cipro) was fought between 1570 and 1573.It was waged between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, the latter joined by the Holy League, a coalition of Christian states formed by the pope which included Spain (with Naples and Sicily), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights ...