Word: lepanto
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...they had stabbed - in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernán Cortés' 1,600 men slaughtering more than 1 million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more than one million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
After the crushing of the Turk at Lepanto, Venice had no challengers of any size left in the Mediterranean. Its empire, secured by an invincible fleet of galleys, ran from the northern Adriatic to Crete, and its trade embraced half the world, reaching as far as China. It was the richest, the most socially coherent and the most formidably armed state south of the Alps. Its doges and merchants were cunning and civil-minded, and its women notable for beauty if one could get used to their obsession with the vagaries of chic: "They weare very long crisped hair," remarked...
Fear of the crescent and the scimitar was one of the fundamental experiences of Christian culture in Mediterranean Europe for nearly 1,000 years, until Don John of Austria broke the Turkish navy at the Battle of Lepanto. In Western eyes, it endowed Persians, Turks and Arabs with an extraordinary strangeness, an "otherness," of which echoes are heard to this day. One of the areas in which they persist, however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic...
...supporting himself on his famous umbrella, and clasping a huge red handkerchief in the other hand." The wooden leg has replaced the clubfoot of Byron's dashing early years, which the poet-King lost, along with all vestiges of poetic vision, while fighting ineptly against the Turks near Lepanto...