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To: Jimmy Valentine

Crosants—Croissants I am a victim of the California educational system. I thought it was over the siege of Vienna—but Lepanto will do—Lots of supernatural things happened in that battle where the Turks were crushed by a young Don Juan who took the battle to the enemy and beat them.


35 posted on 08/23/2014 3:02:58 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

To this day Spain is exempt from the abstinence from meat because of Lepanto. While the fleets of the Italians city-states fell back on the flanks, Don Juan surged forward and his fighters beheaded the sultan. Cervantes was injured in that battle.

In an (unsuccessful) attempt to mediate the struggle over Cyprus between Turkey & Greece, Pope Paul VI returned to Turkey flags taken from the Turkish fleet at Lepanto.


37 posted on 08/23/2014 4:35:27 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
You are correct sir. The coalition was held together only through the pleas of the Pope and the personality of Don John.

The Turks were led by Barbarossa's designee and were unified under him.

It became a complete rout with the bulk of the Ottoman fleet sunk. It drew a line that the Turks stayed behind (roughly every thing east of Malta) for many years after that.

42 posted on 08/24/2014 6:02:00 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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