The Battle for the Mediterranean
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
For much of the 16th century, the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Empire waged an epic conflict for control over the Mediterranean. Follow along with two composite characters, a Barbary corsair and a Hospitaller knight, as they raid, pillage, and fight a holy war for decades on end.
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| 0:16.2 | The cannon boom. |
| 0:18.3 | White smoke blasting forth from the bronze muzzle. |
| 0:21.2 | The sound carrying across the lapping waves of the Mediterranean. |
| 0:25.5 | The iron ball whistled through the air, cutting across the bow of the fat merchantmen. |
| 0:29.8 | It didn't strike the ship, but it came much closer than the captain wished. |
| 0:33.9 | He was a rotund, gray bearded little man, a native of Alexandria. |
| 0:37.8 | And he had been traveling the sea lanes between Egypt and Istanbul for decades, |
| 0:41.8 | with cargoes of spices, silks, and more mundane ceramics and woolen. |
| 0:47.5 | Violence was common here in the year 1563, and the captain was no stranger to it. |
| 0:52.4 | But he had prayed for decades to avoid this particular source of cannonballs. |
| 0:57.1 | Actually, it was less the cannon than the banner flying above the deck of the low, lean war galley. |
| 1:02.6 | Its war is pulling at the water that worried him. |
| 1:05.9 | A white cross on a red background, the symbol of the hospitaler nights of Malta. |
| 1:12.4 | The cannon couldn't have sent a clearer message. |
| 1:15.0 | Stop and be boarded. |
| 1:17.0 | The captain barked orders an aerobic. |
| 1:19.3 | They had no hope of escape. |
| 1:21.2 | The hospitaler galley, with its war is driven by the aching arms and backs of muzzle and slaves, |
| 1:26.0 | was far faster than their rather ungainly tub. |
| 1:29.4 | The captain might have tried to make a fight against common pirates. |
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