Ottomans

• 1559 


  launched an attack to capture Tripoli and lost

  18,000 spanish troops dead
• Naples blocked by


  turks in 1560
• expedition to oran 


  1564 defeating Barbary pirates
• Turks besieged Malta 


  1565 until Toledo could mount a rescue
• Cyprus captured 


  1570
• 1571 


  holy league formed with spain, the papacy, Venice and Genoa

  Don Jon commanded the fleet at Le Panto

  the holy league won, sinking 130 ships, 110 galleys and 3,500 men

  the ottoman admiral was killed
• Venetian peace with the turks

  1573

  renounced claim to Cyprus in return for trade
• Tunis 


  taken by spain in 1573 and retaken by the turks in 1574
• 1581


  peace with spain and the turks
• ' he saw it to be

  his christian duty' Woodward
• the popes thoughts on peace between spain and the turks 


  "the pope was mortified" woodward