page_title: Catalan navy
section_title: Campaigns
hierarchical_section_title: Catalan navy / Campaigns
caption_attribution_description: Español: El Camino Español en tiempos de Felipe II, para llevar a los Tercios de España hasta Flandes. English: The Spanish Road in times of Philip II, to bring the Tercios of Spain to Flanders.
context_page_description: The Catalan navy - with Catalan ships, Catalan admirals and Catalan crew - under the direct or indirect orders of the counts of Barcelona, represented a reality recognized by the entire Mediterranean from its origins to Fernando the Catholic. In later times ships built and manned on the Catalan coasts, under the authority of non-Catalan kings, for example the kings of Naples, carried out some important events.
  Similarly, the navies of the kingdoms of Mallorca and Valencia had their own entity and could be studied separately
context_section_description: The most famous campaigns where these ships fought, In both took part several hundred galleys were_ 
  The Lepanto campaign, 1571
  The Invincible Army campaign in 1588 . Despite the fact that the history books do not recognize Catalan participation, the secret Venice-England archives released to the public say the opposite:
  Other important campaigns: 
  Mediterranean campaign of Alfonso the Magnanimous 1420-1423 All the troops of Alfonso the Magnanimous) embarked the galleys in Barcelona. .
  Granada campaign with the siege of Malaga, in 1492, - "the royal was left without gunpowder and the king sent two galleys to Valencia and Barcelona for it" (Cura de los palacios)
  Wars of Italy- All the troops of Ferdinand the Catholic (as well as those of his uncle Alfonso the Magnanimous) embarked the galleys in Barcelona. .
  Tunis Campaign in 1535 All the troops (as well as Carlos V and his cohort ) embarked on the galleys in Barcelona. .
  In the following wars the Spanish thirds (as well as Carlos V and his cohort ) went in Catalan galleys from Barcelona to Genoa and the Italian thirds from Naples to Genoa, there they took the Spanish way to their destination 
  Smalkald's War 1546-1547
  Flanders War 1548-1568
caption: The "Spanish Way ", with its main and secondary variants, went from Barcelona and Naples to Brussels, via Genoa-Milan.
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