To: TheCrusader
Lepanto ended the dominance of Islam for 400 years.
ahem. Or ended it until 1683.
"Sobieski Sending Message of Victory to the Pope" by Jan Matejko, 1880
12 posted on
10/06/2004 9:42:05 PM PDT by
Mike Fieschko
(1956: the Hungarians behaved like Poles, the Poles behaved like Czechs, and the Czechs ...)
To: Mike Fieschko
"Lepanto ended the dominance of Islam for 400 years.""ahem. Or ended it until 1683."
Huh? Before Lepanto the West lived in constant fear of Islamic invasion. The Moslems had promised to "turn the Vatican into a horse stable". The shattering Catholic victory over the Moslem fleet at Lepanto ended Islamic military and naval supremecy forever. The Ottoman Empire continued on, but Islam was never again the threat it was to the West prior to Lepanto.
16 posted on
10/06/2004 10:26:37 PM PDT by
TheCrusader
("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))
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