Second Longest Siege in History: The (Staggering) Siege of Candia 1648-1669

Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this video! Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial. Choose one audiobook and two Audible Originals absolutely free: or text sandrhoman to 500-500. The siege of Candia was characterized by a struggle for supplies at sea, a war of attrition on land and an unprecedented intensity of mine warfare. The siege was part of the Cretan War in which Candia was the last major stronghold on the island to remain in the hands of the Venetian Republic. This is how contemporary historiography recounts the staggering siege of Candia. Patreon: Bibliography: Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1680-1798, Vol. 2, London 1985. Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1, London 1979. Eleni Thalassinou, Costas Tsiamis, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Angelos Hatzakis, Biological Warfare Plan in the 17th Century—the Siege of Candia, 1648–1669, in: Emerg Infect Dis. 21 (12/2015), p. 2148–2153. Finkel, Caroline, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923, London 2006. Glozier, Matthew, The Long Siege of Candia (1648-1669), in: Morton, Nicholas, The Military Orders volume VII. Piety, Pugnacity and Property, London 2019. Setton, Kenneth M., Venice, Austria and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century, (Mem Am Phil Soc 192), Princeton 1991. Mason, Norman David, The War of Candia 1645-1669, Ann Arbor 1973. Paoletti, Giro, A Military History of Italy, Westport 2008.