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Siege of the Castle of Saint George

1500 CE · Ottoman Empire, Asia · War

Siege of the Castle of Saint George
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The siege of the Castle of Saint George, also known as the siege of Cephalonia, occurred from 8 November until 24 December 1500, when following a series of Venetian disasters at the hands of the Turks, the Spanish-Venetian army under Captain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and Benedetto Pesaro succeeded in capturing the Ottoman stronghold of Cephalonia.

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