Reconquest of Cephalonia

Part of the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)

Date	8 November 1500 - 24 December 1500
Location	Cephalonia, Ionian Sea, off Greece
Result	Spanish-Venetian victory^[1]

Belligerents

Spain
Republic of Venice

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

The Reconquest of Cephalonia or less common, the Siege of Saint George occurred on 8 November 1500 until 24 December 1500, when following a series of Venetian disasters in hands of the Turks, the Spanish-Venetian army under Captain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, succeeded in capturing the Turkish stronghold of Cephalonia,^[2] the fortress of St George, driving out its invaders.^[3] At the peace of 1502-3 the Republic was finally confirmed in its possession, which was never afterwards disturbed.^[4]

Notes

^ Cook p.62
^ Dupuy p.512
^ Freely p.159
^ Kamen p.8

References

Cook, A. M. A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 Cambridge University Press (1976) ISBN 0521099919
Richard Ernest Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. The Harper encyclopedia of military history: from 3500 BC to the present (1993) ISBN 0062700561
Freely, John. The Ionian Islands: Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond (2008) ISBN 1845116968
Kamen, Henry. Spain, 1469-1714: a society of conflict (2005) ISBN 0582784646