The Fleet of the Knights of Malta
Author: Joseph F. Grima
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789995746902
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Author: Joseph F. Grima
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789995746902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph F. Grima
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789995746902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Whitworth Porter
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Whitworth Porter
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 786
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joe M. Wismayer
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Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789990975314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. J. A. Sire
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780300068856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Author: Alexander Sutherland
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Cohen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781973837718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn January 1, 1523, a fleet of fifty vessels put out from the harbour at Rhodes for an unknown destination in the West. On board were the shattered remnants of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, accompanied by 4,000 Rhodians, who preferred the Knights and destitution to security under the rule of the Sultan Solyman. The little fleet was in a sad and piteous condition. Many of those on board were wounded; all-Knights and Rhodians alike-were in a state of extreme poverty. For six months they had resisted the full might of the Ottoman Empire under its greatest Sultan, Solyman the Magnificent; Europe had looked on in amazed admiration, but had not ventured to move to its rescue. Now they were leaving the home their Order had possessed for 212 years, and were sailing out to beg from Christendom another station from which to attack the infidel once again. The Knights of Rhodes-as they were called at the time-were the only real survivors of the militant Order of Chivalry. Two centuries earlier their great rivals, the Templars, had been dissolved, and a large part of their endowments handed over to the Hospitallers. The great secret of the long and enduring success of the Order of St. John was their capacity for adapting themselves to the changing needs of the times. The final expulsion of the Christians from Syria had left the Templars idle and helpless, and the loss of the outlets for their energy soon brought corruption and decay with the swift consequence of dissolution. All through the history of the great Orders we find the Kings of Europe on the lookout for a chance to seize their possessions: any excuse or pretext is used, sometimes most shamelessly. An Order of Knighthood that failed to perform the duties for which it was founded was soon overtaken by disaster.
Author: Whitworth Porter
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 804
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reuben Cohen
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Necker, in the financial distress of the autumn of 1789, appealed for a voluntary contribution from all landowners, the Order gave him a third of the revenue of its French commanderies, and later it pledged its credit for 500,000 francs to the destitute Louis XVI., to help him in the flight that ended so disastrously at Varennes. This last act put it in definite opposition to the Revolution.