Reconquest of Cephalonia

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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 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

  1. ↑ Cook p.62
  2. ↑ Dupuy p.512
  3. ↑ Freely p.159
  4. ↑ Kamen p.8

References

  • Cook, A. M. A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 Cambridge University Press (1976) ISBN 0-521-09991-9
  • Richard Ernest Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. The Harper encyclopedia of military history: from 3500 BC to the present (1993) ISBN 0-06-270056-1
  • Freely, John. The Ionian Islands: Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond (2008) ISBN 1-84511-696-8
  • Kamen, Henry. Spain, 1469-1714: a society of conflict (2005) ISBN 0-582-78464-6


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