Greatest Ottoman Naval Commander

Rule number one in history: In western sources, if Turks are victorious it is not considered as battle.

If your statistics are true so you are right. But I am not sure if your sources are right.

In fact I have to check it too.

First of all three thousand T�fekli Yeni�eris (musket-armed janissaries), Ali Be� the Sanc�k Be�i of Kocaeli [modern �zmit/Nicomedia] from the �mer� [governors], the other Ali Be� and Mustafa Be� the Be� of Al�iye (Alanya) were all given to the navy with their provincial troops (year 945 in the Hicr� calender). They sailed with three hundred vessels from Hali� (Golden Horn) in �stanbul for war in the ninth day of Safer�.

[Describes how Aegean islands were captured, pillaged or forced into submition]

They learned that more than three hundred vessels were coming from the Pope, Venice, France and Spain.

Kapud�n G�z� Hayre'd-d�n Pa�a took a nice precaution by setting up some ambushes near the Preveze fort. For the probability of the enemy landing troops to there by selecting good ships from the navy, he had positioned soldiers to the rocks but some vessels from the enemy arrived and learned of this. Upon this, this precaution was abandoned, the enemy navy arrived and stopped ten miles near Preveze.

Kapud�n Pa�a opened the banners, played the drums, stopped aganist the enemy seven miles near Preveze by putting trust in All�h and to the soul of the Prophet. Night came when he was going to engage in combat with all the vessels so the war had to be posponed to tomorrow.

That night, while patrol boats and galleys from both sides were sailing and patrolling, the enemies fled after seeing safety in escape without making any noise and sound in the middle of the night.

When the patrol boats delivered these news, Kapud�n Pa�a and the navy followed them but their track wasn't found anywhere.

The next day was Friday. They placed watchmen on the poles at early morning, these reported that they saw barchas at the region of Kefalonya. The navy sailed on them immediately. But when these got the news that the Islamic navy was sailing on them, they arranged the barchas and galleys in lines and sailed away with the appropriate blowing wind. The Islamic navy sailed on them. It was All�h's wisdom, the wind stopped blowing. They were forced to pull out their barchas and galleys. The Islamic navy and g�z�s appeared and bombarded the enemy. Their captain named Andre Dorya became the rear guard with his elite galleys and bombarded the Islamic g�z�s while fleeing away and when he understood that he won't take it any more, he fled immediately with his personal galley. His other galleys followed him and withdrew from the battlefield. Even his own barchas bombarded their own galleys and wounded most of them. Own g�z�s bombarded the enemy barchas as they wished and wounded most of them. They sank some of them and pillaged the things that were in them.

Thanks to All�h, that much of enemy came with such a big mission but they wererouted and the Islamic troops were victorious.

The P�di��h's conquests in Bo�dan and later Kapud�n Hayre'd-d�n Pa�a's victorious wars created great happiness among the Muslims.

Ah LD and everyone, I found some stuff for you in two sources - enjoy them as I'll translate them into English

T�r�h-i Pe�ev� (written by Pe�ev� �br�h�m (Ibr�h�m of Quinque Ecclesia) [1574-1650]):

Incrementa atque decrementa Aulae Othomanicae (written by Dimitri Kantemir, Vojvode of Moldavia [1673-1723]):

I guess this battle wasn't as minor and as insignificant as LD thinks