Major battle, minor outcome The importance of the Christian victory over the Turks at Lepanto was more symbolic than military, says Noel Malcolm

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto, 1571

by Hugh Bicheno

Cassell, pounds 20, 350 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

AS EVERY schoolboy used to know, the Battle of Lepanto (October 7, 1571) was one of the greatest encounters in the history of European warfare. The sheer scale of the battle was breathtaking, with more than 200 fighting ships (Spanish, Venetian and Papal) on the side of the "Holy League", pitted against an Ottoman fleet of roughly 250. Each fleet carried more than 60,000 men, and in several hours of hand- to-hand fighting an astonishing total of 40,000 were ...

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