The Ottomans capture Bonifacio in September. With…
September 1553 CE
With only Calvi remaining to be captured, the Ottomans, loaded with spoils, decide to leave the blockade at the end of September, and return to Constantinople.
With the help of the Ottomans, the French had managed to take strong positions on the island and finally occupied it almost completely by the end of the summer, to the dismay of Cosimo de' Medici and the Papacy.
With the Ottoman fleet gone for the winter and the French fleet having returned to Marseilles, the occupation of Corsica is jeopardized.
Only five thousand old soldiers remain on the island, together with the Corsican insurgents.
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