Posted on 11/01/2009 7:11:58 PM PST by Coleus
We can do it again.
One of my favorite victories of the West over Terrorism.
One of the great battles of all time. We need to fight it again in November 3, 2009, 2010, & 2012 and rid our nation of traitors.
Islam has not changed in 1300 years.
To me, there will never be such a place called “Instanbul”; it will always be Constantinople. (As it will be to the rest of the world again.)
How NOW and AARP should be acting...
Read “EMPIRES OF THE SEA” by Roger Crowley. Goes into detail concerning Muslim-Christian wars of the 16th cent
including siege of Malta, Cyprus and Lepanto.
ping
a historical perspective
As important today as then.
Constantinople is dead. If turkey is to fall, it’s capital, istanbul, will be the last stronghold...just as constantinople was for the byzantines.
It will be a thousand years before istanbul is not turkish. And then it will be something else, but never again will it be constantinople.
All Christians should know this histoiry and the Battle of Vienna especially Catholics. I think Pope Bendict knows we are going to be tested again soon.
The Muslims/Turks would enter villages in Italy and Greece and murder the population and take slaves. Most of the Muslim ships had Christian slave oarsmen who rebelled. The Chsritian fleet had freemen.
Also if you own a Beretta gun - your weapon was part of the battle. Beretta was founded around this time an dtheir first order was for rifle barrels in Venice. Venice provided the most ships and the rifles (arequebus) used were deadly.
Where are the men of this caliber in Europe today - willing to defend the West? The psychopathic globalists in charge of the European Union (and USA) want to undo all these sacrifices and admit Turkey into the EU. If that happens we can say goodbye to Europe and what is left of Christendom in Europe.
Excellent summary...thanks for posting...read an excellent fictionalized version of the siege of Malta that is well-researched and highly recommended: The Religion by Tim Willocks...Neither Islam nor Catholicism comes off well in this period due to the fanaticism and cruelty of the Moors and the corruption within the church, primarily in the highest offices...all historically documented.
My only beef with this article is that I think it understates the importance of the galleass in the battle. The presence of the galleass, a superior technology that the turks lacked, is what won the battle.
Galleasses had 3-4 times the number of sails as a galley, and 6 or 7 times the number of guns as a galley. They were sturdier and taller and impossible to board from a galley. Galleys required more of their manpower to be devoted to rowing with oars. Galleasses freed up some of their manpower to be used as fighters...manning cannon or smaller arms. Their weakness was speed and maneuverability.
One galleass was worth 10 galleys, easily. Probably twice that many.
“Throughout the Turkish fleet, the soldiers of The Prophet, confident of victory, disported themselves by belly-dancing to the music of the tambor and the flute.”
There’s an image I can do without.
Isn’t there a wonderful poem about Don Juan and the battle of Lepanto?
Wasn’t Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, wounded in this battle?
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