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marques de Santa Cruz, (1526â1588)
Don Ălvaro de BazĂĄn, marquĂ©s de Santa Cruz de Mudela NĂ© Alvara de BazĂĄn. Spanish admiral. Spanish admiral, member of the Order of Santiago, considered the primary organizer of the Spanish Armada against England in 1588. Born on 12 September 1526 in Granada, Spain, BazĂĄn was the son of the general of Spanish galley squadrons in the Mediterranean. With his…
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Fall Of Constantinople â Ottoman Superguns
Ottoman superguns It is not without some irony that bombards, all but abandoned as obsolete by most European powers by 1453, played a critical role that year in the fall of Constantinople, the last Christian stronghold in the East. For centuries the Byzantine capitalâs great walls and defenders had repulsed…
The History of the Galley
The history of medieval naval warfare is the history of the galley. Since ancient times, battles at sea have taken place largely on the decks of ships and were fought much like land battles, with hand-to-hand combat. Medieval naval battles usually followed a similar pattern. First, smaller, more maneuverable ships…
Polish Winged Hussars
The Winged Hussars were prominent in Jan Sobieskiâs 30,000-man force that defeated the Turks at Vienna in September 1683. There, on the right wing of the Polish-German force, they pierced the Turkish lines, found themselves surrounded, and hacked their way out. They then re-formed and charged again, breaking the Turkish…
Mamlƫks
ââMamlĆ«kââ meant ââowned,ââ or ââslave,ââ with the special connotation of ââCaucasian military slave.ââ This was because most early MamlĆ«ks were Central Asian-Turkic or Caucasus slaves who were imported to Syria and Egypt by the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad to reinforce Arab tribal levies which were losing their military edge, and…
Ottoman and German strategy WWI
Ottoman 3rd Army winter gear The Battle of Sarikamish, December 29th, 1914. With the Ottoman assault on Sarikamish having stalled, General Yudenich, Chief of Staff of the Russian Caucasus Army, senses an opportunity to deliver a devastating counterattack. The Ottoman IX and X Corps at Sarikamish are dependent on a…
Battle of Sisak 1593
Croatia 1593 Hasan Pasha, the Ottoman military Governor of Bosnia, raiding into Croatia found himself facing a large Imperial force led by Michael of Wallachia and Sigismund Bathory of Transylvania outside Sisak, on the Kupa and Save Rivers. Hasan was killed in a terrible defeat. Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha was…