A Short History of Venice
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The average complement of a war galley was 180 rowers and 120 officers, soldiers, marines, and servants. When we consider the means at their command, the immense distances covered by the Italian fleets are even more remarkable than Nelson's famous pursuit of the French from Corsica to the West Indies and back to Aboukir Bay. More than one Venetian cruise reached from Venice to the Genoese Eiviera, thence to Candia, Negro- pont, Constantinople, and Syria, and homeward by way of Modon and the Dal...matian ports, a distance of 4000 or 5000 miles. Think what it meant to be a galley slave !
The peace between Venice and Genoa lasted nearly twenty-five years. It ended in the culmi- nation of several antagonisms. In the first place, the presence of the Venetians on Terra Firma had become rasping to her neighbors. The Carraresi, at Padua, who were to serve as a screen between her and the Scaligers, had now grown to be great des- pots themselves, eager to extend their Paduan state at the expense of the Eepublic.
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The average complement of a war galley was 180 rowers and 120 officers, soldiers, marines, and servants. When we consider the means at their command, the immense distances covered by the Italian fleets are even more remarkable than Nelson's famous pursuit of the French from Corsica to the West Indies and back to Aboukir Bay. More than one Venetian cruise reached from Venice to the Genoese Eiviera, thence to Candia, Negro- pont, Constantinople, and Syria, and homeward by way of Modon and the Dal...matian ports, a distance of 4000 or 5000 miles. Think what it meant to be a galley slave !
The peace between Venice and Genoa lasted nearly twenty-five years. It ended in the culmi- nation of several antagonisms. In the first place, the presence of the Venetians on Terra Firma had become rasping to her neighbors. The Carraresi, at Padua, who were to serve as a screen between her and the Scaligers, had now grown to be great des- pots themselves, eager to extend their Paduan state at the expense of the Eepublic.
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