LEPANTO. The Red Sea of Blood

The great impetus of the battle lasted about four hours and it was so bloody and horrendous that it seemed as if the sea and the fire were all one, seeing in the same water burning many turquoise galleys and within the sea, which was all red with blood, there was nothing but quivers, turbans, quivers, arrows, bows, roundels, oars, boxes, suitcases and many other spoils of war, and above all many human bodies, both Christian and Turkish.