Marco Antonio Bragadin
Marco Antonio Bragadin was born on April 21, 1523. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Marco Antonio Bragadin
Marco Antonio Bragadin, also Marcantonio Bragadin (21 April 1523 – 17 August 1571), was a Venetian lawyer and military officer of the Republic of Venice. Bragadin joined the Fanti da Mar Corps or marines of the Republic of Venice. In 1569, he was appointed Captain-General of Famagusta in Cyprus and led the Venetian resistance in the Ottoman siege of Famagusta during the 1570–71 Ottoman-Venetian war. He was executed by flaying in August 1571 in contravention of negotiated safe passage after the Ottomans took Famagusta, the fall of which signaled the end of Western presence in the Mediterranean island for the next three centuries.