Battle of the Dardanelles (1654)

First Battle of the Dardanelles
Part of the Ottoman-Venetian War over Crete
Date16 May 1654
Location
Dardanelles Straits, NE Aegean Sea
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire  Republic of Venice
Commanders and leaders
Kara Murat Pasha Giuseppe Delfino †
Strength
30 sailing ships
40 galleys
6 galeasses		 17 sailing ships
8 galleys
2 galleasses

This battle, which took place on 16 May 1654, was the first of a series of tough battles just inside the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait, as Venice and sometimes the other Christian forces attempted to hold the Turks back from their invasion of Crete by attacking them early. The battle saw an Ottoman armada routing a much smaller Venetian fleet.

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