Imperial forces had captured Conquering the Venetian city of Padua in June 1509 .

On 17 July , Venetian forces commanded Control by Andrea Gritti marched Self_motion quickly from Treviso with a contingent of stradioti and conquered Conquering back the city , which had been garrisoned Hostile_encounter by some landsknechts hired Employment by Emperor Maximilian I .

In early August 1509 , Maximilian set out Departing from Trento with some 35,000 men and headed Self_motion south into Venetian territory ; there he was joined Becoming_a_member by French and Papal contingents .

Due to a lack of horses , and generally poor organization , the army did not reach Arriving Padua until mid-September , which allowed Preventing_or_letting the Venetian commander Niccolò di Pitigliano to concentrate Aiming what remained Presence of Venice 's army after Agnadello , as well as several companies of volunteers from Venice , in the city .

For two weeks , Imperial and French artillery bombarded Attack the city , successfully breaching Committing_crime the walls ; but the attacking Attack troops were driven Motion back by determined Deciding Venetian resistance when they attempted to enter .

The threat of Turkish piracy in the Aegean Sea had induced Convincing Clement 's predecessors , John XXII and Benedict XII , to maintain Statement a fleet of four galleys there to defend Defending Christian shipping but starting Process_start in the 1340s Clement endeavoured Self_motion with Venetian aid to expand Expansion this effort into a full military expedition .

Worried about another growing Expansion adversary in the Venetian Gulf , the Republic of Venice tried Change to turn Skanderbeg 's allies against him in order to weaken Alfonso 's influence .

Soon thereafter , Skanderbeg cajoled Convincing his former Venetian adversaries into easing Cure Albanian-Venetic relations .

The town had a strong Venetian garrison and was further supported Supporting by a regiment of 2,000 troops from Constantinople .

By the 16th century , the Ottomans had become Becoming a serious threat to the European powers , with Ottoman ships sweeping away Venetian possessions in the Aegean and Ionian seas and Ottoman-supported Barbary pirates seizing Spanish possessions in the Maghreb .

The Albanian–Venetian War Military_operation of 1447–48 was waged between Venetian and Ottoman forces Causation against the Albanians under George Kastrioti Skanderbeg .

Skanderbeg , then ally of the Dukagjini family , moved Self_motion against several Venetian held Defending towns along the Albanian coastline , in order to pressure Convincing the Venetians into restoring Recovering Dagnum .

However , the League of Lezhë defeated Getting both the Venetian forces Causation and the Ottoman expedition .

The League won over the Venetian forces Causation on 23 July 1448 at the gates of Scutari , and over the Ottomans three weeks later , on 14 August 1448 , at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Oronichea .

The Republic was , thereafter , left Departing with few soldiers to defend Defending Venetian Albania .

Even the Venetian refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act the promised Commitment naval link to Castelnuovo with the supplies Supply and reinforcements ; after a general troop parliament , the Capitan Francisco de Sarmiento answer Communication to the Barbarossa surrender Surrendering question was : `` Que vengan cuando quieran '' ( come Self_motion when you want ) .

Performances are given in Giving the Spanish Courtyard of the house and in the 1,700-seat Venetian Theater , a tented facility on the grounds .

In addition to attacking Turkish ships , they attacked Attack Venetian merchantmen .

In December 1615 Venetian troops besieged Besieging Gradisca , on the Isonzo River .

In September 1616 , Count John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to raise 3,000 men in the Dutch Republic for Venetian service .

The Ottoman forces Military_operation were sailing Motion westward from their naval station in `` Lepanto '' ( the Venetian name of ancient `` Naupactus '' , Ottoman `` '' ) when they met Come_together the fleet Military_operation of the Holy League which was sailing Motion east from Messina , Sicily .

The Spanish Empire and the Venetian Republic were the main powers of the coalition , as the league was largely financed Supply by Philip II of Spain and Venice was the main contributor of ships .