[RobbyS]

The English-speaking world is loathe to acknpwledge their debt to Spain for saving Europe from the Turk. Bernard Lewis, the noted scholar on Islam, does did mention Lepanto in a recent book. It is as though four hundred years from now, a historian would fail to mention Churchill and the Battle of Britain. Only in retrospect does it seem that the Turks were not a mortal danger to Christendom. It is hard to believe that modern science itself could have arisen in a Europe dominated by Islam, even in its relatively benign Turkish form.

[RobbyS]

Correction: Lewis does NOT mention Lepanto.