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At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, Malta officially became part
of the British Empire in 1814. As the British presence there
increased, so too did public interest in the island's history,
particularly the military religious order of the Knights
Hospitaller. In 1858, the army officer Whitworth Porter (1827 92)
published this two-volume work, tracing the fortunes of the order
since its establishment following the First Crusade. Incorporating
details of the knights' social habits and customs into his
narrative, Porter also provides supplementary material such as
royal and papal documents in translation. Volume 2 opens in 1522
with the surrender of Rhodes, followed by the order's eventual
relocation to Malta, which the Ottomans besieged without success in
1565. The coverage extends to the blockade of Valletta, then under
French control, at the end of the eighteenth century."
At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, Malta officially became part
of the British Empire in 1814. As the British presence there
increased, so too did public interest in the island's history,
particularly the military religious order of the Knights
Hospitaller. In 1858, the army officer Whitworth Porter (1827 92)
published this two-volume work, tracing the fortunes of the order
since its establishment following the First Crusade. Incorporating
details of the knights' social habits and customs into his
narrative, Porter also provides supplementary material such as
royal and papal documents in translation. Volume 1 focuses on the
centuries of warfare between the order and the forces of Islam,
from its beginnings in the Holy Land through to the second siege of
Rhodes in 1522, when the knights were outnumbered and ultimately
defeated by the attacking Ottoman armies."
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