BATTLE OF LEPANTO

CANDYD COLEEN SARION NHAPAULEON TAPIT

DANICO ALBAO RD BOY NAVIO
BATTLE OF LEPANTO
The battle of Lepanto took place on 6–7 October
1571 between the catholic Holy League Fleet led by
Don Juan of Austria, a bastard son of Habsburg
emperor Charles V, and an Ottoman fleet under
Müezzinzade Ali Pasha.
BATTLE OF LEPANTO
The five-hour battle was fought at
the mouth of the Gulf of Patras

It is near where the Peloponnesian

peninsula joins the mainland (now in
modern Greece)

The Ottoman forces sailing westwards

from their naval station in Lepanto
met the Holy League forces, which
had come from Messina.
Holy League
A coalition of the Republic of
Venice, the Papacy (under
Pope Pius V), Spain
(including Naples, Sicily and
Sardinia), the Republic of
Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy,
the Knights Hospitaller and
the Habsburgs

The Victors of Lepanto (from left: Don Juan

de Austria, Marcantonio Colonna,
Sebastiano Venier)
 Galleasses
The battle featured the use by the Holy League of
a new naval weapon: galleasses. These were
Venetian merchant ships outfitted with high cannon
superstructures sent in front of the armada to
pound the Ottoman fleet as it tried to sweep
around them.
An Ottoman debacle, Lepanto was the last great
galley battle in the Mediterranean.
The Ottomans sent about 280 ships there, and the
Holy League had about the same number.
Victory
The battle resulted in about two
hundred Ottoman ships being
sunk or captured and thirty
thousand Ottoman sailors and
soldiers killed or captured with
only minimal casualties on the
Christian side.
 The engagement was a crushing defeat for the
Ottomans, who lost all but about 200 of their
Aftermath ships despite not losing a major naval battle
of the since the fifteenth century. It was one of the
most decisive naval defeats in the
Battle Mediterranean between the Battle of Actium
(31 BC) and the Battle of the Nile (1798).
Aftermath of the Battle
Despite the massive Turkish defeat, European disunity
prevented the allied forces from pressing their victory or
achieving a lasting supremacy over the Ottomans at this
time. The Ottoman Empire immediately began a massive
effort to rebuild their navy, and within 6 months was able to
reassert Ottoman naval supremacy. The defeat at Lepanto
did not prevent the Ottomans' capture of Cyprus and the
forts around Tunis either. However, Ottomans lost their
control of the seas, especially in the western part of the
Mediterranean.
Aftermath of the Battle
The Holy League had suffered around 9,000
casualties but freed twice as many Christian
prisoners. To half of Christendom, this event
encouraged hope for the downfall of "the
Turk," whom they regarded as the
"Sempiternal Enemy of the Christian." Indeed,
the Empire lost all but destroyed its ships and
as many as 30,000 men.
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