1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Show, Another hour of The Jesse Kelly 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Show on a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: for this hour and we go ahead and step back 4 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: into history, we get ready to do the Siege of 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Malta Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it the final 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: part of the Siege of Malta. And then final hour 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Selena Zita and we'll do emails and 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: we'll talk about commies and filtrating your business and all 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,279 Speaker 1: kinds of other things. And I wanted to remind you 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Thursday, because I am out 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: on Friday, so you gotta email your questions in to 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Now, the thirty second recap 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: you're going to get from last night is the Nights 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: of Saint John. They're given a horrible windswept rock known 15 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin fortifying it. There 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: are four locations on it. They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. 17 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,639 Speaker 1: The Muslim Empire is growing, they are taking over things 18 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: they've taken. Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic Europe is petrified of 19 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: the coming Muslim storm, and the Ottomans, having let the 20 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: Knights of Saint John go once before, have had enough 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean, and they 22 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: land a thirty thousand man force on Malta and they 23 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: began to assault Fort number one. It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now, 24 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: in this Fort Saint Elmo, there's roughly a thousand men. 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: They are not all knights, trained, born in bred warriors 26 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: at all. There are some knights, there are some other soldiers, 27 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: so they're not all completely you know, untrained. And then 28 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,679 Speaker 1: there are civilians inside of the Fort Saint Elmo. Now 29 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:13,119 Speaker 1: let's talk about the Ottoman forces. They have canons, obviously, 30 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: so that both sides have cannons. This is the era 31 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans not only have cannons, 32 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: they have a bunch of regular troops, and they also 33 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: have elite troops. Now think about them like U, this 34 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: is their special forces types. They're called janissaries. If you 35 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will know for 36 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: a very long time they have had tip of the 37 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: speared troops called janissaries. Now I want to pause for 38 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: a second because this will apply to way more than 39 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: this story. This applies to any military engagement you ever 40 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers, We 41 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: obsess our numbers. They have so many thousand here, and 42 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand, and 43 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: they have one hundred thousand, and they have the the 44 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: But all troops are not the same, not at all. 45 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience 46 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and 47 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: only you know, seven hundred knights on the island does 48 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: not mean there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans 49 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: who are lions on the battlefield. It does not mean 50 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: that at all. The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, 51 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: highly highly experienced, and there's not that many of them 52 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: because you can't make that many of them here. The 53 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: numbers I read differed wildly. A lot of people say 54 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: there are in total about six thousand of the thirty 55 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: thousand ottomans where janisaries. That number doesn't matter. These little 56 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: details are not important. Just know there are only so 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: many of them, and then when they're gone, when they're dead, 58 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: you're back to fairly pedestrian, regular troops. And on the 59 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: other side as well. You know, we said there are 60 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: seven hundred nights, some people say five hundred. Again, details 61 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: don't matter, but there are other regular troops, some not many, 62 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: but some. But they're not Knights. They're not guys who 63 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: live and die for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I 64 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: used pac Man as an example last night to try 65 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: to explain the geography of what you're looking at here. 66 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: And in pac Man's mouth obviously is water. It's a 67 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: great harbor. But pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. 68 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: It is not not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did 69 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: know they were coming, and they did build up the fortifications, 70 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: but it is not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they 71 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: get their cannons down, and as I pointed out last night, 72 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: they began to dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are 73 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: not built in a straight line. Remember, you have to 74 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: zigzag in order to give your troops cover as they 75 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: inch their way towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this 76 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: is a rocky, miserable island, and right now it's hot. 77 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: This island is south of Sicily. We're in the month 78 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: of July. It's hot. Here's the unsexy part of so 79 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 1: many battles, so many battles. Water you have to have it. 80 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: This is hard work. Think about the daily life of 81 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: the Ottoman soldier or slave. They had many, many slaves. 82 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: As I pointed out, you are chipping and chopping away 83 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: at rock. You need food and you need water. Even 84 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: if you don't care about the lives of your slaves, 85 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: and that's oftentimes how slaves are treated. You still don't 86 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: want them to die. You need them digging. You have 87 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: to feed them, You have to give them water. And 88 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: it's an island surrounded by salt water, and there's not 89 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: much water on the island. And guess what else I 90 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: didn't tell you this last night. There are sources of 91 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: fresh water on the island wells. Do you know what 92 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: the knights did? What Da Volette, he's the leader of 93 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: the knights. Do you know what he did before the 94 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: Ottomans got there. He took dead animals and dropped them 95 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: into all the freshwater sources that were outside of the fort. Obviously, 96 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: as you you've just figured out now that water is rotten. 97 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: Your men can't touch it, or your men will get 98 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: sick and die. It is a race against time. Every 99 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: single siege always is a race against time for both sides. 100 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: The people inside only have so much water, only have 101 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: so much ammo, only have so much food. That people 102 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: outside only have so much water, only have so much ammo, 103 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: only have so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away 104 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: and chipping away with these trenches, inching closer and closer 105 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not 106 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: always static things. This is the talk we have about 107 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: politics all the time. You can't just hide behind your walls. 108 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: If they're pounding on your walls, or almost ready to 109 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: start pounding on your walls, you are going to have 110 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: to sally forth. You are going to have to leave 111 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: your walls and go try to fight them off, keep 112 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: them off of the walls. And they are doing this, 113 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: they're riding out from Saint Elmo when they can, usually 114 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: at night. They're trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're 115 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: attacking the trenches as you can imagine. So you have 116 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: those trench workers think what terrible luck this would be. 117 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: You get stuck on trench duty. You're hot, you're thirsty, 118 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: you're tired, your back hurts. You're chopping away at rock 119 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: all day, and you look up in time to see 120 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: a night riding down on you, shoving a sword into 121 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: your face. It is up close, it is personal, and 122 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: it is a war of hatred. But the lines continue 123 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: to get closer and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now 124 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: the cannons have gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. 125 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: They start knocking the walls down. But here's the problem. 126 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: They're hitting the top of the walls, and they are 127 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: knocking the mid to top of the walls down. But 128 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 1: you can't send your troops over. If it's just the 129 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: top of the walls down. You are going to have 130 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: to send troops into the walls. You've got to attack 131 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: the foundation. Now along comes one of the real, allegedly 132 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: great leaders of the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name, to 133 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: worry about, remembering that his nickname stands for tell me 134 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: how cool this is the drawn sword of Islam. That's 135 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: kind of cool, right, you gotta be honest, that's kind 136 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: of cool. And I know no one's rooting for the 137 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: Ottomans right now, but that's kind of a cool nickname. 138 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: Dragot notices the cannons are not firing, right. He's a 139 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: hands on type. You don't earn the nickname drawn sort 140 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: of Islam because you sit on your hands. And so 141 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: he charges up to the Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, 142 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: lower the cannons. We have to hit the foundation. We 143 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: have to hit the bottom of the walls to drop it. 144 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: Good for Dragot, but there is a reason many militaries 145 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: don't send their commanders out like this. Draggot catches a 146 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: bullet in the back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show 147 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: on a fantastic Wednesday, Oh hopday. If you mess any 148 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: part of the show, you can download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. 149 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: Ask doctor Jesse Thursday tomorrow. I'll get your questions emailed 150 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans 151 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right, 152 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: and I already mentioned his mouth is full of water. 153 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: It's the great harbor. And I told you last night 154 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: that you need to picture two teeth coming out the 155 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: bottom part of his jaw towards the back of his jaw. 156 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights. Four to five peninsulas. 157 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've 158 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships, 159 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: ships with cannons and things like that on them, why 160 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor 161 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well, 162 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth, 163 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You 164 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and 165 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two 166 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships. 167 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and 168 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind, 169 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long 170 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: way from home. They are currently south of what is 171 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: now Sicily. They have to when this is over, get 172 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's 173 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: a long sail and you need boats. So they have 174 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now 175 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they 176 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo. 177 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo, 178 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact, 179 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking 180 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: down outer walls, and they're bringing their cannons up and 181 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls. 182 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things. 183 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in 184 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand 185 00:12:55,440 --> 00:13:01,239 Speaker 1: sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside 186 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: of the gaps when they are not in the gaps 187 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: at night, I told you there were civilians inside of 188 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:15,119 Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians, they're grabbing mattresses, curtains, 189 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap 190 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: that was just created for when the Ottomans come back 191 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: the next day and know this everybody by now everyone 192 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: in the fort, both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo 193 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: is going to fall. At this point in time, the 194 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: Knights they send somebody across the harbor to dave Lllette. 195 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: In fact, dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave 196 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: Lette send someone to them. The knights across the harbor, 197 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 1: and they say, hey, we can't hold this fort anymore, 198 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: can we aband? Can we abandon it now? Can we 199 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: abandon it and come to the other Can we come 200 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: down to the tee? Can we come down to the 201 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: other fortifications. Dava Let tells them, no, you have to stay. 202 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: Why was he just a jerk? You may have been 203 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: a jerk, I don't know. But every day the Ottomans 204 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: were being occupied with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications 205 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: on the two teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, 206 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: bigger and stronger and better, and Dvallet needed Fort Saint 207 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: Elmo to hold out as long as humanly possible. He 208 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: essentially ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and 209 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: it's bad, and it's ugly, and people were dying on 210 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: both sides. Eventually, Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was 211 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: something the Ottomans needed to happen in a few days. 212 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: It took them a month to take what should have 213 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: been a few days. You're running out of food, you're 214 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: running out of water, and more importantly, remember those janissaries. 215 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: I brought up the Ottoman elite troops. You took one 216 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: of the forts, and you lost half your janissaries. By 217 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: the time it's done, the Ottomans have lost roughly six 218 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: thousand of their men, and the Knights have lost about 219 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: a thousand out of about the three thousand they have. Yes, 220 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: they lost Fort Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was 221 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: unbelievably costly for the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, 222 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: but you can argue, as of this point right now, 223 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: the Ottomans have already lost the Siege of Malta. They 224 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: lost too many of their elite troops. They lost too 225 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: much time, too much food, too much water, too many 226 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: cannon balls. You should probably pack it up and head out. 227 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: That's not an option, as you can probably imagine, if 228 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: you're an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise 229 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: on back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent 230 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: that your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure 231 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: and you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's 232 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: a good way to find your head on a spike. 233 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Wednesday. 234 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: Setting aside politics, Doc and some Moore Siege of Malta. 235 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: Now let's get right back into it. The Ottomans have 236 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: taken Fort Saint Elmo. Remember I told you in the 237 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: beginning there were four fortified locations on this island. Number 238 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: one is gone. Now they have to worry about the teeth. 239 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: I told you this island. You need to picture it 240 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: like pac Man. In the mouth is the Great Harbor, 241 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: and pac Man has two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. 242 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: These are eninsulas that jut out into the Great Harbor, 243 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: and they are fortified. There are civilians here, there are 244 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: the rest, essentially the rest of the Knights here. They 245 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: have been building fortifications and preparing for a long time 246 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: for these Ottomans to come. Remember I said before, if 247 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: you're the Ottomans, you can't just sail your boats right 248 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 1: into the harbor because the fortifications are gonna blow your 249 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: boats out of the water. But if you're the Ottomans, 250 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: you understand your boats are a force multiplier. They can 251 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: carry troops, they have cannons on them. You need your 252 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: boats into the tonsils. Essentially, you need to get your 253 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: boats into the harbor, but you can't bring them in 254 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: through the mouth. What to do? What to do? Well, 255 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: this is something the Ottomans have done before. History nerds 256 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: will know this. It's part of what they did at 257 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans were they were wonderful engineers, 258 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: and they were really great at combat. They figured out 259 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: how to haul gigantic boats over the land. And they 260 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: do picture how unbelievably labor intensive it would be to 261 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: no construction and equipment. Right, there's no engine. They hauled 262 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. They hauled it down 263 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: over pac Man's forehead and landed their boats back into 264 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. Now they have 265 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over to the teeth. 266 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: I told you. The teeth are jutting out the bottom 267 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: of pac Man's job. These are the two bottom peninsula fortifications. 268 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: The Ottomans bring their cannons and their troops over land 269 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: and they start doing the same thing to these peninsulas 270 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, digging in trenches, 271 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,479 Speaker 1: cannons and they start bombarding the place. The Ottomans. Now, 272 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm not going to stay desperate at all. But they're 273 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: looking at the clock, and this is going to be 274 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: important for our purposes here. It's not just food and 275 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: water that's presenting problems for them. Back in the day. 276 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: We don't think about this as much now, but seed travel. 277 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: Back in the day, the day of sail, the day 278 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: of the ore was very, very seasonal. When the weather 279 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, when 280 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: winter came, the winds were not right, the waves were 281 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: not right. You couldn't just hop on the water anytime 282 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: you wanted to hop on the water and just go 283 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah, 284 00:19:54,600 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall. 285 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances 286 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in 287 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: and they decide they're going to try something. The troops 288 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: that are underneath the teeth, They're going to try to 289 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: throw them at the walls while at the same time 290 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing 291 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:33,719 Speaker 1: using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the 292 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well, 293 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: things would have been going well, but there was something 294 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: they didn't quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like 295 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: I said, they had been making preparations. Part of those 296 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: preparations were they had been putting up underwater spikes and 297 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: in anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming 298 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: to do exactly what they were going to do. The 299 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: boats can't get all the way to the beach. They 300 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: stall out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops 301 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: and they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves. 302 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: They're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly, 303 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: I just they need to make a movie about this. 304 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's 305 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: making a miniseries about this. They are dying well. Now 306 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: the Ottomans try to press the issue and they decide 307 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: they're going to try to sail their boats around the 308 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and 309 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: they're thinking, well, they're cannons aren't going to get to us. 310 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at 311 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start 312 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: to sail the ships around the tooth and lo and 313 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a 314 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a 315 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right 316 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for 317 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,679 Speaker 1: the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops 318 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: on the ships are going down with them, and your 319 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: forces are being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, 320 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: now I know you're thinking, aw all is gravy? Looks 321 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: like the Knights have it. Not at all. This has 322 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: been a tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. 323 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: But remember the Knights only have so much food too, 324 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: only have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles 325 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: for their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes, 326 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: they had tried to provision themselves, and they had done 327 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: very well, but they are in a real pickle. And 328 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: those Ottoman cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls 329 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: are dropping. They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. 330 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: And if the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. 331 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: The Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls. And 332 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: now they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, 333 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: the Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't 334 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: figure out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their 335 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: walls until it's almost too late. But they eventually do 336 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: figure it out. What do they do. There's really only 337 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: one thing you can do in that situation. You have 338 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: to dig down inside of your city. Remember this is 339 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: all by hand, and you have to dig a counter 340 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: tunnel looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. 341 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: They find them. They meet under the walls of the 342 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: Knights in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, 343 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: and they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. 344 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: In the pitch black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right, 345 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: a nasty hand to hand combat war takes place in 346 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they 347 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they 348 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now, 349 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: many people, many people to this. They believe that God 350 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the nights. 351 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: Maybe you were skeptical that, maybe you believe that what 352 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: happens next is one of the main justifications people will 353 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, He 354 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: saved them. I'll tell you what happens next. It is 355 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember tomorrow is ask Doctor Jesse Friday. 356 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: You need to get your questions emailed it or asked 357 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 1: Doctor Jesse Thursday. You need to get your questions emailed 358 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: in now the Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. The 359 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and the land. 360 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so I'm worried. 361 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: I haven't been clear on that. It is mainly a 362 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. That's 363 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches are coming. 364 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: They're just trying to mix in as much of the 365 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: ocean as they can while they have the boats. And 366 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say the 367 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls are crumbling. 368 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: They're running out of men, they're running out of food, 369 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly outnumbered still, 370 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: even though they've killed legions of these Ottomans, and the 371 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans can taste victory. 372 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: Pause on that member. I told you there were four 373 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: locations pac Man's nose, pac Man's two teeth, and then 374 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, but 375 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little bit Indina. Well, 376 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: Indina is aware they have a very very tiny force there, 377 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: a tiny force there. Indina is aware that the two 378 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: Teeth are in dire straits and if those fortifications fall, 379 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: it's over. The island will be taken. It's over. So 380 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 1: they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit. Not a 381 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: big unit, not a massive force. They're just going out 382 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces, what's the 383 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: camp look like. Let's try to get word to this 384 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: or that. Before I get to any of that, I 385 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: do have to clarify how much hatred there is between 386 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: these sides, because this part is important. Remember I told 387 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told you 388 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: that earlier, many many years earlier when Rhodes fell. Suliman 389 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he was 390 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: angry that they were now fighting him when Fort Saint 391 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: Elmo fell, But the Ottomans took the few knights who 392 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they disembowed them, 393 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, they 394 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, and 395 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: then they floated them across the water back to the 396 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: other forts. This is a military orders. What's that feel 397 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: like if you're standing on the fort and you see 398 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: the headless, gutless corpse of your friend with a little 399 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: religious insult on top of it, floating at you. Yeah, 400 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: the Knights didn't take it well? How not well did 401 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: they take it? They took all the Ottoman prisoners they had, 402 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: or a bunch of them. I heard all, and I 403 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: heard a bunch. I don't know which is true. And 404 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: they chopped their heads off, and they loaded their heads 405 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: into the knight's cannons, and they started firing the heads 406 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: of the captured Ottoman prisoners back towards the Ottoman lines. 407 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: This is the degree of hatred we're dealing with. And 408 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: I saved that little story so you can understand what 409 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: is at stake. As the Ottomans are now knocking down 410 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: the walls of what are essentially the last two fortifications. 411 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: You with me, This is hand to hand. Deve Alette, 412 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: who is the leader, is not hiding out in his 413 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: command post. He is crossing swords with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming, 414 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: horrible hand to hand cannons. It's as bad as you 415 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: can imagine. Back to Mdina, Back to the recon force. 416 00:29:53,320 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: This force rides out just sniffing around, and by Godd's providence, 417 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: by accident. I don't know what you want to say. 418 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: I wasn't there and I haven't asked God about it, 419 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: they come across a gold mine. They come across the undefended, 420 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: relatively undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are, 421 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: where the wounded are being treated, where all their supplies are. 422 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp 423 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and 424 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: then burning everything down on fire. Remember, at this exact moment, 425 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to 426 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: win the entire island. They turn around and their camp 427 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: is on fire. They freak out, call out the attack, 428 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: which you would, and go charging back toward the This 429 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: is happening in the matter of an hour, people say minutes, 430 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: it depends on what you believe. Minutes away from Malta falling, 431 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: they ride back towards the camp. The reconunit gets out. 432 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: It is a horrible, horrible thing. The Ottomans now they're 433 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: probably completely defeated, they've lost another four to six thousand, 434 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: but they don't feel like they can just quit. They 435 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: have to try something else, anything else, So they ride 436 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: towards Mdina pac Man's tonsils. M Dina is to say 437 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's almost no 438 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: one there. They have almost no cannonballs, so they take 439 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians. They stand them 440 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,719 Speaker 1: on the walls and dress them up like soldiers, and 441 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: then they take the few cannon balls they have and 442 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: they shoot them at the Ottoman force when the Ottomans 443 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: are out of range. Why they want the Ottomans to 444 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: think they're loaded with cannonballs. We have as many, We 445 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: have so many we'll shoot them at you before you 446 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: even get close enough. The Ottomans, by now their spirit 447 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: is broken. They get shot at from out of range. 448 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: They see all these air fingers quote troops on top 449 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: of m Dina and they say, screw this, We're leaving. 450 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: They start marching back towards the other two teeth. I 451 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: will wrap this up. It'll probably take me five minutes, 452 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: and then we'll get back to politics in just a moment. 453 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: But for all intents and purposes, the siege of Malta 454 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: is pretty much much broken. It's mop up time. Now. 455 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: Before we mop up, let's do a little bit of 456 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: good Let's uh not forget about the widows and orphans 457 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: we just had. I am sure you saw another cop ambushed, 458 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: ambushed in a courthouse. It's terrible. Who cares for these families? 459 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: When cops die in the line of duty, when firefighters 460 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: die in the line of duty? How how do you 461 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: even pick it up and move on? Tunnel to Towers 462 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: has been standing alongside these families for over two decades. 463 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: Remember remember they built them an entire community in Florida 464 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: so they could live together. They're paying off mortgages for them, 465 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: real genuine care of widows and orphans as we are 466 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: commanded to do. Eleven bucks a month from you is 467 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: all they've ever asked for. Donate to Tunnel the towers 468 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: give it automatically. You never know it's gone. T the 469 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:15,439 Speaker 1: number two T dot org, T two t dot org. 470 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:16,919 Speaker 1: We'll be back.