Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Lepanto 1571: Shattering the Idea of Ottoman Invincibility" video.
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@GXSergio The Ottomans didn't need to conquer Cyprus or win at Lepanto to blockade Venetian trade with middle east, because they WERE middle east and Venice's main trading partner. On the other hand, Venice didn't really need Cyprus, or winning at Lepanto to trade with them.
Venetian strategy with the Ottomans simply was to make any eventual Ottoman expansion at their expenses so costly that they would be calm and trading for a couple of generations before trying again.
Half of the nowadays Italy was Italy then like now. It happened then to be part of a thing called EMPIRE, like nowadays Spain, most of nowadays Germany, nowadays Austria and several other nowadays things in Central Europe, under an EMPEROR that happened to be of German descent ("Habsburg") and that happened to be King of Spain like he happened to be King of Germany, King of Naples, King of Sicily, Archduke of Austria and at least a dozen other titles. To be king of various places is a prerogative of the EMPEROR.
They had never been "main Spanish territories".
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@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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@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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