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To: Fai Mao

Still looking for $30m to make “Malta,” about the 1565 defense of Malta by the Knights Templars, outnumbered 10:1.


5 posted on 05/29/2017 5:50:38 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

September 11 1565 - relief forces under Don Toledo de Garcia
pushed the Ottoman invaders off the island of Malta

The Malta garrison had withstood a 4 month siege - out of
some 8,000 defenders at start only 600 were left able to
bear arms at end of siege


11 posted on 05/29/2017 6:50:05 PM PDT by njslim
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To: LS

September 11 1565 - relief forces under Don Toledo de Garcia
pushed the Ottoman invaders off the island of Malta

The Malta garrison had withstood a 4 month siege - out of
some 8,000 defenders at start only 600 were left able to
bear arms at end of siege


12 posted on 05/29/2017 6:50:21 PM PDT by njslim
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