Siege of Rhodes (1480)

70,000 men100 or 160 ships probably between 10,000 and 15,000 men

not more than 20,000

500+ knights2,000+ soldiers

In 1480 a small Knights Hospitaller garrison of Rhodes withstood an attack of a Ottoman Empire.

Historiography

Gulielmus Caoursin, vice-chancellor of the Knights Hospitaller, was an eye-witness of the siege & wrote its description in his Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio an English translation exists as a factor of Edward Gibbon's Crusades. An earlier English translation was the earn of John Caius the Elder printed 1481-84. D'Aubusson's own relation on the siege can be found in John Taaffe's history of the Holy, military, sovereign an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular draw figure or combination. of st. John of Jerusalem.

Johann Snell printed Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio in Odense, Denmark in 1482, and this printing is regarded as, if not the first, then one of the first two book printings in Denmark.