SOURCE: “What Happens in ‘Lepanto,”’ in The Chesterton Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, February, 1992, pp. 25-29.
In the following essay, LeVay describes the historical events that Chesterton left out of his poem about the sixteenth-century battle between a Turkish and a Christian fleet in the Gulf of Lepanto.
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