Greece/Venice: The 1480 Siege of Rhodes. Ships of the Hospitallers in the forefront, and Turkish camp in the background (Ottoman-Venetian Wars). Illumination by Master of the Cardinal de Bourbon (fl. 1470-1500), c. 1483. On 23 May 1480 an Ottoman fleet of 160 ships appeared before Rhodes, at the gulf of Trianda, along with an army of 70,000 men under the command of Gedik Ahmed Pasha or Mesih Pasha. The Knights Hospitaller garrison was led by Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson. The Knights were reinforced from France by 500 knights and 2,000 soldiers under d'Aubusson's brother Antoine.

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