Episode 378 - The Battle of Lepanto

1h 19m
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The Holy League is formed to fight off the Ottomans, resulting in a lot of guys catching flintlocks to the face, a pirate double cross, and spies in blackface.

Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211013195205/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-lepanto

Brummett, Palmira. β€œβ€˜The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited: Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century,’ 63-93, in A. Contadini, and C. Norton, Eds.,The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013).” The Renaissance and the Ottoman World , 2013.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-lepanto-the-best-days-work-in-centuries/

https://www.historynet.com/twilight-of-the-galleys-off-lepanto/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/muslim-equipment-at-the-battle-of-lepanto/

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