Action of 27 August 1661

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Action of 27 August, 1661
Part of Cretan War (1645-1669)
Naval battle between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1661 (17th-century miniature)
Date 27 August 1661 Location Milos, Greece Result Venetian–Hospitaller victory
Belligerents
Republic of Venice Knights Hospitaller	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Giorgio Morosini Ruffo	Unknown
Strength
20 galleys 2 galleasses	36 galleys
Casualties and losses
unknown	5 galleys sunk 4 galleys captured

Action of 27 August 1661 was a naval battle that took place on 27 August 1661 near Milos, Greece between the Republic of Venice and the Knights Hospitaller over the Ottoman Empire.

20 galleys and 2 galleasses

36 galleys - 5 sunk, 4 captured

The result was a victory for Venice and Malta over the Ottoman Empire.

• Anderson, R. C. (1952). Naval Wars in the Levant 1559–1853. Princeton: Princeton University Press. OCLC 1015099422.
• Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-192-2.

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