Tree starting january fourteenth on d. W. Behind the walls of st elmo his feverish activity the knights of the order of sin john trying to organize the lines of defense a feat of two hundred takesh men of war has been sighted off the coast of malta forty thousand heavily armed autumn and are about to attack seven thousand christians by the knights of malta will attempt to withstand the. Onslaught. On the eighteenth of may fifteenth sixty five attacks attack but despite their superior numbers they meet unexpectedly determined resistance the attempt to take the full by surprise fails the defenders put up a dog fight within a month the turks have lost eight thousand men and then does faults an elm a full. Weekend to the turks launch a Second Attack on the opposite side of the haba there the defense is led by the grand master of malta john paris. With his soldiers and circled by the turks they resist the fall long months. Then at last the help they have been waiting full arrives from sicily the tables are turned the sultans army demoralized by the long struggle phase from the island in panic. I i. I i am. The whole of europe rejoiced at the victory of the aggressively expansionist autumn and the knights of st john was celebrated as the saviors of the christian occident brave defenders of the faith in gratitude and to protect the island better against future attacks pope pius the fourth sent them one of his best architects francesco. The people of michelangelo and an expert in the construction of fortifications. According to his design on the back hills of mt scabrous a town came into being. The first in the modern era to be conceived on the drawing board. Valletta. Like a grid twelve streets around the breadth and nine the length of what waltz until the end of a can spit of land and crowding the whole development at the point of the prom tree was false and so bitterly fought over in the famous each. For all its jim actually clamped the town has nothing statical rigid about it the up and down of the streets the colored facades of the houses with their wooden balconies sinew at it against the blue of the sky convey a feeling of mediterranean lightness. The peaceful it ill of the town was dependent on protective walls malta had been weakened and fear during new turkish attack to build up our alley and circle valetta with towering ramparts hugh not the rock built stone upon stone forbidding and impregnable. Much across the peninsula the builders dug out a ditch fifteen metres deep in the stony bedrock twenty metres wide and a kilometer in length. Possibly the longest and deepest ditch avodart by man. Inside the city hall will swear huge out of the rock voted vacations within the fault of occasions built to service retreat fortresses and cannon platforms over the coals that decades a gigantic stronghold came into being the stand if the bidding aspect would deter any enemy from attacking motive for the next century its. Valid time grew and developed into a modern city a fuss that would buildings in the plain style of the renaissance later ording to the manor the age the knights of malta built a mall that is your estate and i will brock style they also built the sagrada and family of a hospital with a thousand beds highly modern for its time here the hospital has took care of the sick until it anatomy and surgery to students of the older. Than a year old was one hundred sixty five metres long an entry in the diary of a british ships chaplain described it as follows it is so wide that twelve men could easily walk abreast down the middle of it on both sides their beds with iron posts which have caton zinj sheets and come to paint and a cat scrupulously clean and fresh. The conventual chuch of the order of st john the baptist not was the Religious Center of valletta on the outside it looks sober unadorned a stronghold a faith. The interior is one of the rock splenda attesting the wealth and grandia. The order of knights hospital a us and john jerusalem the whole chuch was a gift of a french knight yeah he was elected grand mosque to the water a miss was his way of expressing his gratitude. The floor of the cathedral was transformed into a copied of colored stones memorials at the graves of the sons of european artistic rafiq families who died in the seventies of the woulda. Shoulda with clearness trump shit the knights were divided according to the native Language International on long each of the nationality is its own side chapel in the chapel of the italians theres a huge stock office and a st jerome a painting by. Representing his patron vignacourt grand master of the order. To it. Than to the italian nom resided in the notch or bash of italy as commander in chief of the fleet of the order he had come on over the same as the old one the marshal sculpture of the entrance originated in the later years of the religious wars between muslims and christians on the mediterranean the stone age and scimitars and time. Auburns and cannons and swords that witness to the constant battle of the brother members of the order against the islamic saracens. In the all that is to custom they are not part of god but the administrators of the order contracts diplomatic documents and the seal of the order were kept the palace was built in seven hundred forty full by pinto def on second is bust is almost lost at the center of the mighty bulk of ops over the main portal a sumptuous piece that the rich long could well afford vasta mines brought in a high income they provided the most nights and the corresponding a influential. Pinto led the order for thirty two years longer than any other grandmaster. Defense of christianity and the care of the sick with the original duties of the order in times of peace these objectives were lost sight of the crusades were long over and the infidel also mans no longer threatened the christian world the knights of st john were not needed any more as a protective force increased affluence had come to them over the last centuries through new avenues of calmness and trade. Privateering expeditions on the mediterranean now mainly stuff the pub has increasingly that. The night said long since abandoned the strict rules of that woulda in favor of a life of luxury and eames. Here in the grandmasters palace political is. Souse of significance when i no longer on the agenda twenty seven masters of the order had resided here the twenty eighth would be the last one. That inland from home past an austrian grand master was sitting alone in his pockets on the ninth of june seventeenth ninety eight in total indifference to what was happening around him massa story and how. The enemy who had assembled his fleet this time of malta was a frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte the most famous fortress of the mediterranean was surrendered without a shot being fired. And. 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