A Ramble In Malta And Sicily - In The Autumn Of 1841 (1842) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV, THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. " Ix,, I must tell a tale of chivalry " In speaking of the island of Malta, I should be guilty of an important omission if I neglected to mention the knightly order of St. John of Jerusalem, which occupied this spot for nearly 300 years, and with whose history the name of Malta must be ever associated. On the 23rd of March, 1530, Charles the Fifth, king of Sicily, gave over to the order of St. John of Jerusalem the islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, with Tripoli, in Africa, as a free and noble fief under certain conditions. The remains of the order, who had fled from the island of Rhodes, and were then in the Papal States, took possession of this grant in the autumn of the same year. The island, after having successively been under the dominion of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians, fell from the hands of the Romans during the middle ages under the precarious sway of the Arabs, and Sicilians, but now began to rise into importance under the military government of the knights. On their arrival they found the island in a state of great destitution, and exposed to continued attacks from the Turks and Barbary corsairs. The first act of the Grand Master was to refortify the old castle of St. Angelo, which was built by the Arabs; and thus to secure a defence against the attacks of his enemies. In 1546, the famous corsair Dragut effected a landing, and sacked the village of Tarshien, but was compelled to retreat with great loss. After this, repeated attempts were made by the Turks to gain possession of the island, and they were as often repulsed, till under the reign of John de la Valette, Malta underwent its severest assault from the hands of the same people. Solyman, enraged at the seizure of a Turkish galleon belonging...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	February 2010
Authors:	George French Angas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-160-27925-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-160-27925-X
Barcode:	9781160279253

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