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Armada of the cross: the future of Europe depended on the victory of an underdog Christian fleet holding back the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto. (History: Struggle for Freedom).
Autumn had come to the Mediterranean, and more than a hint of the blustery winter to come was in the air, as two formidable armadas gathered for battle near Corinth. By far the larger force was the fleet commanded by Ali Pasha, servant of Ottoman Turkey's Sultan Selim II. From the deck of his fearsome flagship Sultana, Ali directed 270 war galleys and a massive collection of lighter craft. The fleet, appropriately, was deployed in a huge crescent stretching from the rocky shores of Albania in the north to the coast of Peloponnesus in the south.
From the Sultana's mast flew a green banner into which the name of Allah had been stitched in gold nearly 30,000 times. ...
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