Kemal Reis, after reaching Cape Zonchio in…

August 1499 CE

Kemal Reis, after reaching Cape Zonchio in the Ionian Sea with the large Ottoman fleet in August 1499, defeats the Venetian fleet of forty-seven galleys, seventeen galliots and about a hundred smaller vessels under the command of Antonio Grimani.

Grimani, sixty-five, had only obtained the command through a donation of sixteen thousand ducats to the state.

He had not been told whether to fight an offensive or defensive campaign.

Many captains ignore his orders to attack the Ottomans and he does not personally take part in the battle.

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Pylos > Pílos Messinia Greece View →

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Antonio Grimani View → Kemal Reis View →

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Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of View → France, (Valois) Kingdom of View → Venetian Albania View → Ottoman Empire View → Avlona, Sanjak of View →

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Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) View → Zonchio, Battle of View →

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