ORDER OF BATTLE // July 19, 1470
Siege of Negroponte
Estimated force strength by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Forces engaged
2 sides catalogued · combined 150,000 estimated
Ottoman Empire
70,000
Medium-confidence figure
Republic of Venice
80,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Siege of Negroponte on July 19, 1470 was a major engagement of the First Ottoman–Venetian War, in which Ottoman forces under Mehmed II, Mahmud Pasha, Gedik Ahmed, and Rum Mehmed Pasha confronted a Venetian force commanded by Giacomo Loredan and Tomaso Schiavo. The recorded Venetian casualty figure of 6,000 indicates the scale of the contest. The engagement involved substantial forces on both sides, with the Ottoman army numbering 70,000 and the Venetian force 80,000.
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