Siege of Rhodes (1480)

Siege of Rhodes
	Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe
	; The 1480 siege of Rhodes. Neapolitan ships in the forefront, and Turkish camp in the background.
Date	23 May – 17 August 1480; (2 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Location	Rhodes
Result	Knights Hospitaller victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Knights Hospitaller
Commanders and leaders
Mesih Pasha	Pierre d'Aubusson; Antoine d'Aubusson
Strength
70,000 men; 100 or 160 ships Probably between 10,000 and 15,000 men Not more than 20,000 3,000 janissaries	500+ knights; 2,000+ soldiers Probably numbered about 3,500 men or 300+ knights 300 sergeants, 3,000-4,000 soldiers.
Casualties and losses
9,000 killed and 15,000 wounded	Few

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

^ ^a ^b Pierre d'Aubusson, in a letter cited in "The Papacy and the Levant", Kenneth M. Setton, page 351, 1984
^ ^a ^b ^c A History of the Crusades, Kenneth Meyer Setton (general editor), page 324, 1969
^ ^a ^b The later Crusades, 1274-1580: from Lyons to Alcazar, Norman Housley, page 228, 1992
^ The Fortress of Rhodes 1309-1522, Konstantin Nossov,Brian Delf, page 46, 2010
^ according to refugees from the Turkish camp cited by Caoursin ("The Papacy and the Levant", Kenneth M. Setton, page 359, 1984)