Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "SandRhoman History" channel.

  1. And the forerunner of those tactics was an Italian, Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere. He used exactly that kind of armor (it's this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEjlS9WcPgI ), and used mixed formations of light cavalrymen and arquibusiers (carried on the field by the same cavalrymen, for better mobility). However, his signature tactic to deal with pikemen, was to attack them without giving them the time to form up, during travel, or at night, or to avoid the main formation and attacking the camp. It was the kind of warfare whose effectiveness had been first demonstrated by the Stradiots.
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  2.  @ktm8848  Contrary to you, I read plenty. It seems you prefer cheap nationalist propaganda instead.
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  3.  @ktm8848  Then why you decided to ignore It?
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  4.  @عليياسر-ذ5ب  Because a moron say so?🤣
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  5.  @عليياسر-ذ5ب  Because you are evidently unable to read plain English. After Lepanto, the Ottomans never won a major NAVAL engagement again. A Naval engagement is a battle BETWEEN SHIPS. Charles V died BEFORE Lepanto. It's better you go back to school.
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  6. @William Ewart Gladstone The Ottomans several times used over 100 galleys in battles fought Vs. the Venetians in the Cretan War, but at that point they were technologically outmatched, and, thus being a declining power and using much less ships, Venice quite easily won all the major naval engagements.
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  7. @William Ewart Gladstone Venice remained in possession of the Islands of Tinos and Cerigo in the Aegean.
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  8. @William Ewart Gladstone Tinos remained Venetian until 1715, Cerigo was still Venetian when the Republic fall to Napoleon.
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  9.  @Asterix958  None of them was a major naval engagement. Only some corsair action.
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  10. The first siege of Ceuta lasted 26 years.
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  11. The Venetian fleet was in control of the sea. It won all the major naval clashes of the war with ridicolous ease. Problem was that Venice couldn't station a fleet around Crete 24/7/365, so they couldn't prevent the Ottomans to be supplied as well.
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  12. Since the Venetians controlled it at the time, it was Cattaro. It's not like the eastern capital of the Roman Empire has to be called Instanbul instead of Constantinople, because that's the current name.
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  13.  @serhatilhan2020  That the Turkish prisoners were killed in the castle before the surrender is the Ottoman point of view. Unfortunately, it seems it was a Turkish prisoner that informed Mustafa Pasha. But had not all of them being killed?
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  14. The first siege of Ceuta lasted 26 years.
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  15.  @sp1d3rm0nk3y33  Doria had the most difficult task. He was in numerical inferiority and, contrary to the other two Christian commanders, he had only open sea on his right side. So, when Uluc Alì started to sail for the open, Doria had three possibilities. Or follow him, leaving a gap where Uluc could eventually thrust, or stretching his line very thin so that Uluc could break through it, or remain where he was, and being outflanked. The first possibility gave at least him the chance to close on the Ottomans from the open and take them from two flanks. Already before the battle infact he advised the other commanders than, in case, he would have sailed for the open, so it would have ben up for the reserve to close the gap to give him the needed time.
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  16.  @sp1d3rm0nk3y33  Those galleys had been put under Doria's command, but weren't his own, so some of the captains, especially the Venetian ones, took his manuver for cowardice and decided to stay. The situation was worsened by the fact that those ships were at the end of Doria's formation, and couldn't see what Uluc Ali was really doing, because the smoke coming from the center of the battle covered his formation from their point of view. Infact Uluc did chose the moment when he was covered by the smoke even from the point of view of Doria, to change route and go for the gap. That's why Doria was slow to react. Given the situation he was in, however, Doria's tactic was the right one in any case, because in any case Uluc Ali shoul have stopped and fought sooner or later, so that would have given him the time to intervene.
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  17. The Venetian fleet was in control of the sea (it won all the major naval clashes of the war with ridicolous ease), so there were no problems in supplying the city, but obviously that drained the resources of the Republic.
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