Great Siege of Malta

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The Great Siege of Malta.

There we go.

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Hmm

... uh, around the siege, great, the Siege of Malta, a naval combat, air combat game.

Yeah.

But I got, but I got inspired by, by this idea, and I kind of put that one aside and went with this one.

He did Passion of the Christ, obviously.

I think he's doing one about the Siege of Malta now.

Yes.

Very interested in that.

Exactly.

I think today we do tend to give it a m- a bit of, more of a push sort of because it's the Great Siege of Malta.

But on a more European level, the Ottomans still Remained as an empire for quite a long time.

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Significance is this Jewish tradition notes this is the fourth day of creation when the sun, moon, and stars were created.

So that is the significance from the... jewish calendar there's more of an interesting significance through the islamic history so any warrior historian will know the great siege of malta was september 11 1565 and malta has always been a key battle point it was kind of like um an international Alamo of Knights of Malta.

At dawn on May 18, 1565, one of the largest armadas ever assembled appeared on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Again, a key shipping point.

Its 200 ships had been sent by Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the vast Ottoman Empire, to destroy the Knights of Malta, who had long been a thorn on his side.

Without getting into the details of the battle, the siege of Malta in 1565 was a clash of unimaginable brutality, one of the bloodiest, yes, most overlooked battles ever fought.

It was also an event that determined the course of history for its stake was the very survival of Christianity.

The battle at last came to a close on September 11th, 1565, as a small army from Sicily joined the Maltese knights and routed the remaining Turks who had already suffered great casualties after a series of strategic errors.