Lepanto 1571: Shattering the Idea of Ottoman Invincibility

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Thanks to Nord VPN for sponsoring this video. Check it out here: https://nordvpn.com/sandrhoman It's risk free with Nord's 30-day-money-back-guarantee! The battle of Lepanto 1571 was one of the greatest naval battles of the Mediterranean and the last one to be fought almost exclusively by rowing vessels. According to maritime historian Lawrence Mott a staggering amount of 70 to 90 percent of all war galleys in the basin participated in the fighting. Lepanto was in some sense the naval counterpart of the 1683 siege of Vienna. Contemporaries and historians long saw it as a climactic battle between east and west and mythologized it as the battle in which a Christian fleet defeated the seemingly unstoppable Ottoman threat from the east. In this video were going to look at what exactly happened in the gulf of Patras and look critically at the impact the battle really had. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Prints & T-Shirts: https://sandrhoman.creator-spring.com/ Paypal (thank you: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman #history #battle #educational Chapters: 00:00-01:29 Intro 01:29-02:34 NORD 02:34-04:56 Chapter 1: Rising Tensions 04:56-08:57 Chapter 2: Dissent 08:57-13:17 Chapter 3: Mutual Underestimation 13:17-19:07 Chapter 4: "An infantry battle on floating platforms" 19:07-23:30 Chapter 5: Cheating Defeat Source: Agostón, G., Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto (review), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249904340_Victory_of_the_West_The_Story_of_the_Battle_of_Lepanto_review (23.12.22). Capponi, N., Victory of the West. The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto, Cambridge 2006. Finkel, C., Osman's Dream. The History of the Ottoman Empire-Basic Books, New York 2007, p. 157. Parker, G., The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, Cambridge 1996. Glete, J., Warfare at Sea, 1500–1650. Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe, London 2000 Guilmartin, J. F., Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century, 2nd edn., London 2003. Guilmartin, J. F. Galleons and Galleys, London 2002. Mott, L. V., s.v. Battle of Lepanto, in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History online (https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195130751.001.0001/acref-9780195130751-e-0463?rskey=oe3dCO&result=9). Norwich, J. J., A History of Venice, London 1989, p. 518. Setton, K. M., The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571, vol. 4 The Sixteenth Century from Julius III to Pius V, Philadelphia 1984. Stevens, W., History of Sea Power, New York 1920 Sicking, L., Naval warfare in Europe, c. 1330–c. 1680, in: Tallet, Frank/Trim, D. J. B. (Ed.), European Warfare 1350-1750, Cambridge 2010, p. 242.