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The Great Siege of Malta (Maltese: L-Assedju l-Kbir) occurred in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the Knights Hospitaller. The siege lasted nearly four months, from 18 May to 8 September 1565.
At dawn on 18 May 1565, an invasion, which became known as the Siege of Malta, began when a fleet of Ottoman ships arrived at the island and docked at Marsaxlokk harbour. It was the job of the Knights of Malta, led by Jean Parisot de Valette, to protect the island from the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman armada arrived off Malta in May 1565 and anchored at Marsaxlokk close to Fort St. Elmo at the entrance to Grand Harbour. The sheer scale of the force—around 180 ships and 40,000 soldiers—may have been one reason why it took so long to invade.
The Great Siege of Malta of 1565 is considered to be the most represented military happening in 16th-century cartography. These maps are evidence of unprecedented and remarkable technical...
The fort withstood the siege for 28 days, falling to the Turks on 23 June 1565. None of the defending knights survived, and only nine of the Maltese defenders survived by swimming across to Fort St. Angelo on the other side of the Grand Harbour after Fort St Elmo fell.
Siege of Rhodes Great Siege of Malta. Fra' Jean " Parisot " de (la) Valette[ a ] (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ paʁizo d (ə) (la) valɛt]; c.4 February 1495 – 21 August 1568) was a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, from 21 August 1557 to his death in 1568. As a Knight Hospitaller, joining the order in the Langue ...
This article discusses accounts of the 1565 siege of Malta, in which an Ottoman armada was prevented from taking the island by the vastly outnumbered Knights of St. John. Although from a military and political perspective the impact of the siege faded rapidly, histories of the siege retained religious and political meaning for a
