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Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John

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Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Great Siege of Malta and the Knights of St. John
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The Great Siege of Malta took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire tried to invade the island of Malta, then held by the Knights Hospitaller. The Knights, with approximately 2,000 footsoldiers and 400 Maltese men, women and children, withstood the siege and repelled the invaders. This victory became one of the most celebrated events in sixteenth-century Europe. Voltaire said, Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta, and it undoubtedly contributed to the eventual erosion of the European perception of Ottoman invincibility and marked a new phase in Spanish domination of the Mediterranean.The siege was the climax of an escalating contest between a Christian alliance and the Islamic Ottoman Empire for control of the Mediterranean, a contest that included the Turkish attack on Malta in 1551, the Ottoman destruction of an allied Christian fleet at the Battle of Djerba in 1560, and the decisive Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
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