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Entry: Stauffenberg, Sobieski, and Lepanto Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/stauffenberg_sobieski_and_lepanto#2071 Post contents: The "effete and treacherous" Venetians fought the Turks in 1470, 1538, 1570, 1620, 1645-1669, 1684-7, and 1714-8. No one in Christendom fought the Turks more or were as tenacious in an asymmetrical conflict that pitted a city state against a great empire. Tactically speaking, the Battle of Lepanto was won by the gunfire of the Venetian great galleys, which sailed first into battle and broke the Turkish line. Eviva San Marco! Sent at: 2008 07 24