Capture of Kalamata (1659) were fought between the Ottomans and the Venetians during the cretan war.
Led by Francesco Morosini, he led his men and the other of his forces to capture Kalamata, which were part of the Ottoman rule at that time during the war. The town sustained and considerable damage before once and more to the collapse of the Turks, and progressively over time in 1685, the Republic of Venice took parts of Kingdom of Morea as well.
Background
The battle was to divert the Ottomans attention on siege of Candia, and then raise a wider revolt. The Venetians took Kalamata with no efforts whatsoever, and as the Ottomans, they had abandoned their town as the Venetians capturing the Kalamata. The town and castles were plundered, and all of able-bodied men were carried off to serve as rowers in the Venetian galleys; Lazzaro Mocenigo, a Venetian noblemen attacked Chios in 1657, continuingly as of Francesco Morosini attack Kalamata in 1659, which at that time, he had his naval militia occupied Kalamata on southern coast of Morea, and therefore took Torone from Chalcidic peninsula, as well as Çeşme on Anatolian coast, which is the opposite to Chios island.
Kalamata was ensued destroyed under the led of Francesco, carrying off of about fourteen pieces of canon from the castle, subsequently condemning the inhabitants to make them as a slave at the oar in specifically Francesco galleys, and also perpetuating to burn down all the house in the town.