siege, notable, early modern

Siege of Corfu

Siege of Corfu was a siege conducted on 8 July 1716 at Corfu, in what is now Greece. It was part of the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War, which ran from 1714 to 1718. The recorded result: Venetian victory.

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Record

Date	8 July 1716
Place	Corfu, Greece 39.623N, 19.913E
Part of	Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War (1714 to 1718)
Kind	Siege, early modern
Result	Venetian victory
Belligerents	Republic of Venice; SMOM; Papal States; Spain; Tuscany	Ottoman Empire
Commanders	Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg; Andrea Pisani (admiral)	Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha; Kara Mustafa Pasha; Muhtar Bey
Strength	Corfu: 5,700 soldiers; 26 ships; 18 galleys; 2 galleasses; 12 galiots; 2 fireships; Relief fleet: 13 ships; 13 galleys	33,000 soldiers; 62 ships; 15 galleys; 4 fireships; 2 bomb ships; 11 transports
Casualties and losses	10,000 military losses; Unknown number of civilians	15,000 dead; 56 cannons; 8 siege mortars

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Corfu 1798, 0.8 km
Siege of Corfu 1537, 7.9 km
Action of 8 July 1716 1716, 14 km
Siege of Butrint 1798, 17 km
Battle of Elaia–Kalamas 1940, 20 km

In the same war

Before: Siege of Souda 14 January 1715
After: Action of 8 July 1716 8 July 1716
All 4 engagements of Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War

Elsewhere in 1716

Siege of Corfu is one of 1,496 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 274 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q11794876, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Corfu (1716), revision 1381326904, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.