The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement taking place on 7 October 1571 in which a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic maritime states arranged by Pope Pius V, financed by Habsburg Spain and led by admiral John of Austria, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (the Venetian name of ancient Naupactus Ναύπαkτος, Ottoman İnebahtı) met the fleet of the Holy League sailing east from Messina, Sicily.
In the history of naval warfare, Lepanto marks the last major engagement in the Western world to be fought entirely or almost entirely between rowing vessels, the galleys and galeasses which were still the direct descendants of the ancient trireme warships. The battle was in essence an "infantry battle on floating platforms".[10] It was the largest naval battle in Western history since classical antiquity, involving more than 400 warships. Over the following decades, the increasing importance of the galleon and the line of battle tactic would displace the galley as the major warship of its era, marking the beginning of the "Age of Sail".
The victory of the Holy League is of great importance in the history of Europe and of the Ottoman Empire, marking the turning-point of Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean, although the Ottoman wars in Europe would continue for another century.
Why were the Ottomans so autistic about conquering Europe?
Julian Powell
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Brandon Ross
>Meanwhile, the centers clashed, with such force that Ali Pasha's galley drove into the Real as far as the fourth rowing bench, and hand-to-hand fighting commenced around the two flagships, between the Spanish tercio infantry and the Turkish janissaries. When the Real was nearly taken, Colonna came alongside with the bow of his galley and mounted a counter-attack. With the help of Colonna, the Turks were pushed off the Real and the Turkish flagship was boarded and swept. The entire crew of Ali Pasha's flagship was killed, including the commander himself. The banner of the Holy League was hoisted on the captured ship, breaking the morale of the Turkish galleys nearby. After two hours of fighting, the Turks were beaten left and center
How true can this be?
Parker Miller
>marking the turning-point of Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean,
Besides finalizing the conquest of Cyprus, you know the very thing for which the Holy League was founded? And the reconquest of Tunis, the only christian triumph in 30 years of massive naval wars with the Turks/Barbary Pirates. But who cares, right? At least they had Creta, the most important of the remaining islands in the eastern mediterrean, still under christian control .... Oh wait.
Lepanto was a meme.
Joshua Sullivan
COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE
Aaron Howard
They effectively ended the Ottoman Empire as an existential thread to South-West Europe?
Aiden Morris
>This butthurt roach KEK
Ethan Long
Can you imagine how Dantesque, how intense that battle must have been ? Hundreds of gun galleys going all out at close range, with boarding actions left and right, the greatest naval battle between the largest Empire at the time and the last Crusaders. What a sight it must have been...
Zachary Thompson
So intense in fact, that at one point terrified turkish sailors started hurling oranges at the christians who then burst out laughing with a commander pissing his pants(it's in the wiki article)
Aaron Robinson
14 centuries of inbreeding
Jayden Gonzalez
In this battle Cervantes lost use of an arm
Cooper Morales
>Spain saving the world from barbarism yet again Truly the good guys of history
Tyler Nelson
>They effectively ended the Ottoman Empire There was no threat. However, the Ottomans still remained one of the most powerful states in the world and they kept getting stronger until their peak in 1683.
>The Ottomans were quick to rebuild their navy, albeit in inferior quality both in ships and crews; the loss of most of their composite bowmen was especially critical.[40] By 1572, about six months after the defeat, more than 150 galleys and 8 galleasses, in total 250 ships had been built, including eight of the largest capital ships ever seen in the Mediterranean.[41] With this new fleet the Ottoman Empire was able to reassert its supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean.[42] Sultan Selim II's Chief Minister, the Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokullu, even boasted to the Venetian emissary Marcantonio Barbaro that the Christian triumph at Lepanto caused no lasting harm to the Ottoman Empire, while the capture of Cyprus by the Ottomans in the same year was a significant blow, saying that:
>You come to see how we bear our misfortune. But I would have you know the difference between your loss and ours. In wresting Cyprus from you, we deprived you of an arm; in defeating our fleet, you have only shaved our beard. An arm when cut off cannot grow again; but a shorn beard will grow all the better for the razor.[43]
James Garcia
That is like thinking Spain was at the peak of its powers in 1639
In 1683 Ottomans didnt even have the printing press, they were left behind technologically, and the Mediterranean had become very irrelevant for international trade, something that wouldnt change until the Suez channel.
Robert Scott
Yes he was a bastard and that is the name that Habsburger bastards got.He was Castillian
Noah Cooper
Hand*
Nicholas Jenkins
>Lose all its veteran sailors >Become a joke in the western mediterranean >BUT WE GOT CYPRUS I love roach denial.The Turkish fleet became a meme that was only relevant through piracy after that
Eli Davis
We third Rome now
Lucas King
>"""Third Rome"""""" Larpers lose against the real second Rome
Brayden Sullivan
It is our duty to god, and it will be accomplished, this time
Nathaniel Phillips
T*rks irrevocably, from now until the end of time in this world and then next btfo by honorable, strong, fearless Western warriors
gif related its just a turk in his natural state
Jordan Reyes
*screeching muslims*
Ayden Clark
Only Italians and Spaniards. English,Germans (the protestant kind) and Turks all allied with the Turks
Connor Stewart
London is more muslim than Cordoba.
Jacob Hughes
>marking the turning-point of Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean > > >>>>
Landon Hall
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Jason Cruz
Kek
Nicholas Stewart
Lepanto only rectified a previous battle, returning the status quo of Mediterranean conflict back.
>A peace treaty was signed between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in October 1540, under which the Turks took control of the Venetian possessions in the Morea and in Dalmatia and of the formerly Venetian islands in the Aegean, Ionian and eastern Adriatic Seas. Venice also had to pay a war indemnification of 300,000 ducats of gold to the Ottoman Empire.
>With the victory at Preveza and the subsequent victory in the Battle of Djerba in 1560, the Ottomans succeeded in repulsing the efforts of Venice and Spain, the two principal rival powers in the Mediterranean, to stop their drive for controlling the sea. The Ottoman supremacy in large-scale fleet battles in the Mediterranean Sea remained unchallenged until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
Brayden Jackson
Spain barely got involved in Preveza.It was just Venice screwing up.When Bazan and Don Juan got involved they cucked the T*rks forever
Isaac Ramirez
50 galleons and 60000 soldiers and no Spanish involvement? This battle had more galleons and soldiers than Lepanto had, how is it possible they can muster that without Spanish involvement?
It's okay hermano you don't need to prove to anyone Spain was powerful in 16th century, it's common knowledge but these too battles are tied to each other.
Carter Nguyen
Spain had no galleons in the mediterranean fleet.Let alone 60000 soldiers.The Galleons in the battle were merchant ships from Genoa and Venice.Spain gave 50 small galleys and 3000 soldiers
Asher Brooks
The fleet was in the command of Carlos I and was part of Holy League. Denying Spanish involvement is absurd.
Even the article says 50 galleys and galleons were sent by the Spanish, as much as Venetians and Genoese.
Samuel Sullivan
If you were well read up on the subject you would know there is far more that happened. The effort of rebuilding their fleet caused the price of timber and slaves to go sky high in the Ottoman empire. By 1576 they ended up finding out that their Navy costed to much to operate and let their new ships rot in harbor. They also had the Ottoman crown go bankrupt that year. This more or less caused the Ottoman economy to enter a depression for the next 12 years.
Matthew Thompson
Not him but only the English wikipedia page mentions Galleons being present. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Galleons were absent in the med at that time, going by other sources they only really started sailing there frequently in the 17th century.
Joseph Roberts
Galleons were used in mid-16th century
Lincoln Lopez
So were Chinese Junks but that does not mean they sailed in the med.
Oliver Turner
Galleons were barely if ever used in the mediterranean. They were too expensive and mostly used for transatlantic trade. That is just the english wiki. The battle was mainly a Genovese and Venetian intervention with the support of a light fleet from Charles
