Battle of the Dardanelles (1657)

Fourth Battle of the Dardanelles
	Part of the Ottoman-Venetian War over Crete
	; Death of Lazzaro Mocenigo, by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri
Date	17–19 July 1657
Location	Dardanelles Straits, NE Aegean Sea40°12′N 26°24′E / 40.2°N 26.4°E
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Republic of Venice; Order of Saint John; Papal States
Commanders and leaders
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha	Lazzaro Mocenigo †; Giuseppe Delfino
Strength
28 sailing ships; 9 galleasses; 10 galleys	2 galleasses; 8 light galleys; 17 sailing ships
Casualties and losses
5 vessels sunk, 3 captured, several damaged.	Unknown

The Fourth Battle of the Dardanelles in the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War took place between 17 and 19 July 1657 outside the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait.^[1] The Ottomans succeeded in breaking the Venetian blockade over the Strait.^[1]

Venice's navy had been positioned at the south of the narrows during the engagement. A strong northerly wind had given the Turkish a favorable position.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Setton, Kenneth M. (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the seventeenth century. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-192-7.

Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-192-2.

[:0-1] 1 2 3 Setton, Kenneth M. (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the seventeenth century. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-192-7.

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