Happy Lepanto Day

[David Manley]

Raise a beer and a croissant to the victory at Lepanto, this day in 1571

[csadn]

The Venetians lost the war, tho'. In fact, Ottoman expansion wouldn't be checked for another century at least.

And the Radical Islamic Terrorists Hijacking Western Transports And Kidnapping Western Citizens wouldn't be stopped until the early 1800s -- by a nation which didn't even exist at the time of this battle.... >:)

[David Manley]

And they weren't even stopped then