Which Spanish author served as a soldier at Lepanto (where he lost the use of his left hand), was captured by pirates in 1575 and imprisoned in Algiers until 1580, and was then employed in government work in Madrid?
Miguel de Cervantes of commendation to the king from the Duke of Sessa. On the morning of 26 September, as the "Sol" approached the Catalan coast, it was attacked by Ottoman pirates and he was taken to Algiers, which had become one of the main and most cosmopolitan cities of the Ottoman Empire, and was kept there in captivity between the years of 1575 and 1580. After five years as a slave in Algiers, and four unsuccessful escape attempts, he was ransomed by his parents and the Trinitarians and returned to his family in Madrid. Not surprisingly, this traumatic period of Cervantes' life
Spanish destroyer Lepanto her broadside between her conning tower and deck gun, cutting "C4" in two. "C4", commanded at the time by Capitan de Corbeta (Lieutenant Commander) Francisco Reina Carvajal, went down in of water. All 44 of her crew were lost with her. "Lepanto" was decommissioned 24 May 1957 and scrapped in 1958. Spanish destroyer Lepanto Lepanto was a of the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the government of the Second Spanish Republic. She was named after the Battle of Lepanto. "Lepanto" saw a lot of action in during the Spanish Civil