Confrontation at Lepanto Christendom vs. Islam

Name: Confrontation at Lepanto Christendom vs. Islam
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ISBN: 9780765305381

ISBN-10: 0765305380

ISBN-13: 9780765305381

Edition: 2006

Authors: T. C. F. Hopkins, T. C. Hopkins

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Like an angry lion, the Turkish menace growled at the frontiers of Europe. In 1453, the last remnant of the mighty Roman Empire was obliterated when Turkish forces overran Constantinople. Western civilization was being threatened by medieval Islam. By 1570, a huge Turkish fleet had begun to turn the Mediterranean into a Muslim lake. A year later Pope Pius V created an anti-Ottoman alliance known as the Holy League--Christendom's answer to Jihad. One morning in October 1571, Don John of Austria, commanding the fleet of the Holy League, met the Ottoman Turks in the waters at the mouth of the Gulf of Patros. The future of a despairing, fragmented Europe was about to be decided.... By four…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Publication date: 6/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Map of the Mediterranean basin


Map of the Gulf of Patmas



The eve of battle



The Ottoman empire



The Venetians



The Hapsburgs



Meanwhile, in the rest of the world



Getting personal



Opening gambits



First lull



Famagusta



A change in fortune



Reneging



European preparation



Complications



Ottoman preparation



Finding the foe



The point of no return



Opening moves



Uchiali



Interludes



Battle's end



First reckoning



Developments



Reactions spread



In Constantinople



More repercussions



Don Juan de Austria



Venetian denouement



Don Juan's denouement



Afterthoughts