This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...The Genoese succeeded in enclosing him with a fleet of sixty-six galleys under Paganino Doria, and he was compelled to sink his ships and to escape by land. The next year witnessed a still more terrible conflict. A fleet of thirty galleys under Pancrazio Giustiniani, and of twenty-two Catalan galleys under ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...The Genoese succeeded in enclosing him with a fleet of sixty-six galleys under Paganino Doria, and he was compelled to sink his ships and to escape by land. The next year witnessed a still more terrible conflict. A fleet of thirty galleys under Pancrazio Giustiniani, and of twenty-two Catalan galleys under Ponce de Santa Paz, under the supreme command of Niccolo Pisani, attempted to force the entrance to the Bosphorus on February 13, 1352. The battle continued during the whole of a very stormy day and night, and the loss on both sides was enormous. The Venetians, however, were decidedly the greatest sufferers, and they retired from the contest for a season. The Genoese now compelled Catacuzenus to sign a treaty on May 6,1352, which gave them the sole right to trade at Constantinople, and engaged to exclude the Venetians and the Catalans. BATTLE OF LOIERA. 117 The defeat of the Venetians in the Bosphorus was soon repaired in the Mediterranean. Pisani, the Venetian admiral, succeeded in effecting a union with a Catalan fleet of forty galleys. Grimaldi of Genoa came out to meet them with a fleet of fifty-two galleys. The battle took place at Loiera, in the northern part of the Island of Sardinia, on August 28, 1353. The Venetians contrived to conceal their superiority of numbers, a common device both in naval and military warfare in the middle ages, and the Genoese were entirely defeated. Ninety galleys were taken with 3500 prisoners, and 2400 Genoese perished in the fight. Genoa was at this time suffering severely from famine, and she saw no other sign of safety than to submit herself to the hands of the Visconti family, the Archbishop Giovanni of Milan. The Spinola of the Ghibelline faction, who possessed the passes of the Apennines leading into...
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