Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Canea (Candian War).

This place was besieged June 24, 1644, by 50,000 Turks under Jussuf, the Capitan Pasha, and defended by a small force of Venetians and Candians, who held out until August 22, repulsing numerous assaults, which cost the Turks 20,000 men.