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Battle of Lepanto, (Oct. 7, 1571) Naval engagement between allied Christian forces (Venice, the pope, and Spain) and the Ottoman Turks during an Ottoman campaign to acquire the Venetian island of Cyprus.After four hours of fighting off the coast of Lepanto, Greece, the allies, under Juan de Austria, were victorious, capturing 117 galleys and …



The Greatest Sea Battle in History: Lepanto, October 1571. For more than three years, Pope Pius V had labored mightily to sound alarms about the deadly Muslim buildup in the shipyards of Istanbul. The sultan had been stung by the surprising defeat of his overwhelming invasion force in Malta in 1565. The savagery of Muslim attacks on the …



















Lepanto's impact on Mediterranean history wondering whether historians of the future would make better sense of this event. Later on in his history, he singled out two important imperial actions during the post-Lepanto era that had not received proper attention. First, the death of the Portuguese king, Don Sebastian, and the defeat of



But his life and the victory at Lepanto were joined in epic history. Some 30 years after Lepanto, Cervantes, perhaps recalling that Don Juan had visited him as he convalesced on the Marquesa after the battle, summed up this decisive battle when his often incisive Don Quixote noted a perfect turn of phrase: "The best day's work in centuries."









This event is known to history as the "Battle of Lepanto." Pope Pius V, whose treasury bankrolled part of this military endeavor, ordered the churches of Rome opened for prayer day and night, encouraging the faithful to petition the intercession of the Blessed Mary through the recitation of the Rosary. When word reached the Pope Pius ...






