THE SEIGE OF MALTA - History's bloodiest siege

Daily Mail U.K. ^ | July 7, 2007 | JAMES JACKSON

[Dqban22]

THE SEIGE OF MALTA

History's bloodiest siege used human heads as cannonballs By JAMES JACKSON 07 July 2007

A hot and fetid June night on the small Mediterranean island of Malta, and a Christian sentry patrolling at the foot of a fort on the Grand Harbour had spotted something drifting in the water.

The alarm was raised. More of these strange objects drifted into view, and men waded into the shallows to drag them to the shore. What they found horrified even these battle-weary veterans: wooden crosses pushed out by the enemy to float in the harbour, and crucified on each was the headless body of a Christian knight.

This was psychological warfare at its most brutal, a message sent by the Turkish Muslim commander whose invading army had just vanquished the small outpost of Fort St Elmo - a thousand yards distant across the water.

Now the target was the one remaining fort on the harbour front where the beleaguered, outnumbered and overwhelmed Christians were still holding out: the Fort St Angelo. The Turkish commander wished its defenders to know that they would be next, that a horrible death was the only outcome of continued resistance.

But the commander had not counted on the mettle of his enemy - the Knights of St John. Nor on the determination of their leader Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette, who vowed that the fort would not be taken while one last Christian lived in Malta.

The rest of the history

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[cloudmountain]

HUZZAH for the captured Chinese official, henceforth to be called the GOLDEN TONGUE of ALL golden tongues.

His progeny would succeed for time immemorial: the Clan of the Golden Tongue.

:o)

[sasportas]

No expert on this, but Malta is a Catholic island, and the Freemasons are anti-Catholic (at least in the time of the invasion of Malta on this thread).

Hence, the Catholic secret orders with names having Malta in them, “Knights of Malta,” etc., would not be the Freemasons. Just my guess.

Basically, the Malta secret orders are the Catholic answer to the anti-Catholic Masonic secret orders. The same sort of secretive thing, only Catholic.

How the Catholic “Knights of Columbus” secret society fits into this, I haven’t a clue. Maybe some Catholic on this thread can tell us.

[BereanBrain]

as a reminder, freemasons were once a part of the Catholic Church.

two wrongs don’t make a right....

[sasportas]

A hundred years or so back, the two seem to have maintained separation. Not so much nowadays apparently, I have known Catholics that are Masons, one of them even the master of our local Masonic lodge.

[Salvation]

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[GreyFriar]

Thank you. A battle that we need to remember, along with Tours and Lepato.

[Dqban22]

Thank you, great contribution to the education of our people. My son was educated by Jesuits a was forced feed about el Che and all the prominent radical Marxist leaders in Latin American in very positive terms, but never about Lepanto or the real history of the Crusades.