There were several wars of the Holy League in European history:
- The part of the War of the League of Cambrai from 1511 to 1514
- Part of the Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War from 1570 to 1573 centered around the battle of Lepanto
- The Great Turkish War from 1683 to 1699
Famous quotes containing the words war, holy and/or league:
“A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Her track, where’er the Goddess roves,
Glory pursue, and generous Shame,
Th’ unconquerable Mind, and Freedom’s holy flame.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)