Battle of Lepanto
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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 and led by the navies of the Span
The Battle of Lepanto Laureys a Castro, 1683
Order of battle of the two fleets, with an allegory of the three powers of the Holy League in the foreground, fresco by Giorgio Vasari (1572, Sala Regia) The six Venetian galleasses are shown between the two ranks of opposing galleys.
Depiction of the Ottoman Navy, detail from the painting by Tommaso Dolabella (1632)
One of the Venetian Galleasses at Lepanto (1851 drawing, after a 1570s painting)
Müezzinzade Ali Pasha
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Müezzinzade Ali Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and naval officer. He was the Grand Admiral in command of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, where he was killed in action. He also served as th
Battle of Lepanto
…rowing experience. Gianandrea Doria also advised to saw off the long bow of the galleys so they could fire more easily their main guns at close range. Ali Pasha, the Ottoman admiral (Kapudan-i Derya), supported by the corsairs Mehmed Sirocco (Mehmed Şuluk) of Alexandria and Uluç Ali, commanded an Ottoman force…
Müezzinzade in a 1571 broadsheet