JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY X97 



Of nearly three hundred Turkish galleys, but 

 fifty made their escape. From twenty-five to thirty 

 thousand Turks were slain, and perhaps ten thou- 

 sand Christians. The galley-slaves on both sides 

 fought well, and the only beneficial result of the 

 victory was the liberation of several thousand Chris- 

 tian captives. It is true that their liberty was 

 purchased with the lives of a nearly equal number 

 of Christian soldiers, and by the reduction to 

 slavery of almost as many thousand Mussuimen, 

 duly distributed among the Christian victors. 

 Many causes contributed to this splendid triumph. 

 The Turkish ships, inferior in number, were also 

 worse manned than those of their adversaries, and 

 their men were worse armed. Every bullet of the 

 Christians told on muslin turbans and embroidered 

 tunics, while the arrows of the Moslems fell harmless 

 on the casques and corslets of their foes. The 

 Turks, too, had committed the fatal error of fight- 

 ing upon a lee shore. Having no sea room, and 

 being repelled in their first onset, many galleys 

 were driven upon tho rorks. to ho destroyed with 

 all their crews. 



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