What does Veeky Forums know about Battle of Lepanto?

What does Veeky Forums know about Battle of Lepanto?

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amazingly little. I just learned about it recently. It was apparently a very pivotal battle where the turks got completely devastated. It should be up there with Cannae and Waterloo and Stalingrad but it's obscure for some reason. I especially enjoyed reading about those gargantic battleships that the Italians used, i had never heard of those ships before.

Spain, Papal States and Venice allied against Turks 'cause they conquered Cyprus to Venice and they threatened Malta.

Alliance was short. After Lepanto, Venice got out and started to negociate with Turks. Yes, Alliance was done for Venice and they do the retard.

Anyways, Cervantes lost one hand there and Don Juan de Austria consolidated himself as hero

Turks rebuilt their navy in a few years.

are you saying they didn't suffer a catastrophic defeat?

can you read or not?

They were humilliated but they could recover from that

Is like Spanish Armada Invencible, it was an humillation, yet a small lose. After that, Spanish naval army obliverated British one with no problems.

Still, main consequence of Lepanto is that was last battle ever in Mediterranean Sea until WWII. Ottomans stopped trying to attack.

They lost too many good sailors.

So yes it was a catastrophic defeat. Not to mention the morale boost it provided.

The effects of Lepanto can still be seen, as Spain controls some cities in Northern Africa, something that would not have ever happened if the complete ottoman dominance of the mediterrenean sea had not been broken.

>Turks rebuilt their navy in a few years.

The costs of the war made the Ottoman Empire go bankrupt in 1576.

spain controls cities in nothern africa?
What are you talking about?

Not him, but

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla

Turks got absolutely beat the fuck out.

The Muslims ships were in the shape of a crescent, and the Christian ships in turn in the shape of a cross. The tip of the cross met the star of the crescent first, where the Muslim admiral was and killed him.

Spanish, and surprisingly Croatians for some reason, take way too much credit for what was by large an Italian victory.

Cooler than Vienna

Dawn of the age of swashbuckling

Christendom for the first time in centuries stands together and curbstomps the Ottomon imperials, heroically rescuing slaves to boot

ok,that i didn't know so thanks but owning to small cities isn't that much of an influence that is felt centuries after the win of the holy allaince in lepanto.

except for the thousand of veteran sailors that died in that battle
t. mehmet

Haha nice try Turkroach

The Ottomon navy NEVER recovered from that battle, ever

>lose thousands of experienced sailors
>make them too afraid to ever to the same thing again
Lepanto and Vienna were the beginning of the end

that exactly what the turkposter is insinuating

yes, they really are that stupid over there

>Christendom for the first time in centuries stands together and curbstomps the Ottomon imperials
>first time

they tried these two times before this and got btfo, lepanto is still pretty cool though

>But the defeat at Lepanto, despite being much celebrated in Europe, was only a temporary setback: it could not reverse the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, and within a year, the Ottomans built an equally large fleet, which in 1574 conquered Tunisia from Spain. This completed the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, following the operations of the Ottoman fleet under Turgut Reis which had earlier conquered Libya (1551); and of the fleet under Salih Reis which had conquered the coasts of Morocco beyond the Strait of Gibraltar in 1553."


They still had naval supremacy and the resources to build more fuckheug fleets, in three months they have built more than 150 from their middle east port, lepanto was an epic battle but it effect was exaggerated

neat story. tyrions dad tywin ended up taking all the credit for winning it but he eventually got killed by a crossbow while taking a shit.