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Event

Battle of Lepanto (1571 CE)

Last major galley fleet battle in the Mediterranean; marks gunnery-on-galleys era (Guilmartin 1974).

Islamic

Event Details

  • Date: 7 October 1571
  • Type: naval-battle
  • Civilizations: islamic, western-atlantic

Description

Last major galley fleet battle in the Mediterranean; marks gunnery-on-galleys era (Guilmartin 1974).

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Date 7 October 1571; outcome: Holy League victory.
  • Figures not reliably recorded. Why: Batch G: en.wikisource search found only 1911 Britannica, Catholic Encyclopedia and Chesterton (secondary or poetry); no open contemporary relation located; HathiTrust, Gallica and BDH were not searched in this session.

Confidence

medium (battle facts); numbers low-medium. Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • hess1972-lepanto [formal] Andrew C. Hess (1972). The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History. Past & Present 57. DOI 10.1093/past/57.1.53 (Crossref-verified). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
  • guilmartin1974-gunpowder-galleys [formal] John F. Guilmartin Jr. (1974). Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2919403W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • wp-battle-of-lepanto [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Battle of Lepanto (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

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naval battle · 7 October 1571

Battle of Lepanto (1571 CE)

Last major galley fleet battle in the Mediterranean; marks gunnery-on-galleys era (Guilmartin 1974).

Evidence: Stub only Draft estimate

Details pending

Details pending. Only a Wikipedia summary stands behind this conflict so far. No figures, units or casualty numbers are shown until a scholarly source has been read.

Why no primary source yet. "Batch G: en.wikisource search found only 1911 Britannica, Catholic Encyclopedia and Chesterton (secondary or poetry); no open contemporary relation located; HathiTrust, Gallica and BDH were not searched in this session."

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Sources and evidence

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