October 08, 2006

The Battle of Lepanto

Read Novak's account of the defeat of the Turkish fleet on October 7, 1571. The Spanish-Venetian-Genose fleet swept the Muslims from the sea, effectively ending the Muslim threat to Christian Europe. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. Seamanship and better gunnery helped as well.

Posted by LMC at October 8, 2006 05:41 PM | TrackBack
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Victor D-H did a great chapter on this in Carnage and Culture.

Posted by: rp at October 9, 2006 01:04 PM

I'm not into poetry at all, but one of the few I like is G.K. Chesterton's Lepanto.

(I posted it a couple years ago, with commentary, here.)

Posted by: Russ at October 9, 2006 01:08 PM