WEBVTT - History Lesson 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:06.000 The Jesse Kelly Show, Another hour of The Jesse Kelly 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.360 Show on a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.240 for this hour and we go ahead and step back 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.959 into history, we get ready to do the Siege of 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.880 Malta Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it the final 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.360 part of the Siege of Malta. And then final hour 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.360 we're gonna have Selena Zita and we'll do emails and 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.960 we'll talk about commies and filtrating your business and all 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.279 kinds of other things. And I wanted to remind you 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.440 tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Thursday, because I am out 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.519 on Friday, so you gotta email your questions in to 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:47.559 Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Now, the thirty second recap 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.920 you're going to get from last night is the Nights 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:57.880 of Saint John. They're given a horrible windswept rock known 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.920 as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin fortifying it. There 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.080 are four locations on it. They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.639 The Muslim Empire is growing, they are taking over things 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:15.920 they've taken. Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic Europe is petrified of 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:21.400 the coming Muslim storm, and the Ottomans, having let the 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.480 Knights of Saint John go once before, have had enough 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.679 of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean, and they 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:34.759 land a thirty thousand man force on Malta and they 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:42.120 began to assault Fort number one. It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:48.880 in this Fort Saint Elmo, there's roughly a thousand men. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:54.200 They are not all knights, trained, born in bred warriors 0:01:54.240 --> 0:02:00.000 at all. There are some knights, there are some other soldiers, 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.120 so they're not all completely you know, untrained. And then 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.679 there are civilians inside of the Fort Saint Elmo. Now 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.119 let's talk about the Ottoman forces. They have canons, obviously, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.160 so that both sides have cannons. This is the era 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.160 of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans not only have cannons, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.160 they have a bunch of regular troops, and they also 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:28.840 have elite troops. Now think about them like U, this 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:35.200 is their special forces types. They're called janissaries. If you 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.520 know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will know for 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.800 a very long time they have had tip of the 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.920 speared troops called janissaries. Now I want to pause for 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.440 a second because this will apply to way more than 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:53.160 this story. This applies to any military engagement you ever 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:59.360 read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers, We 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.120 obsess our numbers. They have so many thousand here, and 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.480 he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand, and 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.160 they have one hundred thousand, and they have the the 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:12.400 But all troops are not the same, not at all. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:19.560 There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:26.120 and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.000 only you know, seven hundred knights on the island does 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:36.240 not mean there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.960 who are lions on the battlefield. It does not mean 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:49.040 that at all. The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:56.760 highly highly experienced, and there's not that many of them 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.600 because you can't make that many of them here. The 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.360 numbers I read differed wildly. A lot of people say 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:09.160 there are in total about six thousand of the thirty 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.360 thousand ottomans where janisaries. That number doesn't matter. These little 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.640 details are not important. Just know there are only so 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.000 many of them, and then when they're gone, when they're dead, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.479 you're back to fairly pedestrian, regular troops. And on the 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.280 other side as well. You know, we said there are 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.400 seven hundred nights, some people say five hundred. Again, details 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:35.039 don't matter, but there are other regular troops, some not many, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:40.200 but some. But they're not Knights. They're not guys who 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.039 live and die for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.719 used pac Man as an example last night to try 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.760 to explain the geography of what you're looking at here. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.159 And in pac Man's mouth obviously is water. It's a 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:59.279 great harbor. But pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:06.680 It is not not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.560 know they were coming, and they did build up the fortifications, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.600 but it is not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.240 get their cannons down, and as I pointed out last night, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.800 they began to dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.560 not built in a straight line. Remember, you have to 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.480 zigzag in order to give your troops cover as they 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.599 inch their way towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.120 is a rocky, miserable island, and right now it's hot. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.440 This island is south of Sicily. We're in the month 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.960 of July. It's hot. Here's the unsexy part of so 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:56.160 many battles, so many battles. Water you have to have it. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.320 This is hard work. Think about the daily life of 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.480 the Ottoman soldier or slave. They had many, many slaves. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.960 As I pointed out, you are chipping and chopping away 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:16.000 at rock. You need food and you need water. Even 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.280 if you don't care about the lives of your slaves, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.920 and that's oftentimes how slaves are treated. You still don't 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.120 want them to die. You need them digging. You have 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.360 to feed them, You have to give them water. And 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.520 it's an island surrounded by salt water, and there's not 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.160 much water on the island. And guess what else I 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.599 didn't tell you this last night. There are sources of 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.680 fresh water on the island wells. Do you know what 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.000 the knights did? What Da Volette, he's the leader of 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.320 the knights. Do you know what he did before the 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:54.280 Ottomans got there. He took dead animals and dropped them 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.640 into all the freshwater sources that were outside of the fort. Obviously, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.160 as you you've just figured out now that water is rotten. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.599 Your men can't touch it, or your men will get 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:11.800 sick and die. It is a race against time. Every 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:17.920 single siege always is a race against time for both sides. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.120 The people inside only have so much water, only have 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.200 so much ammo, only have so much food. That people 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.680 outside only have so much water, only have so much ammo, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.520 only have so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.960 and chipping away with these trenches, inching closer and closer 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.640 and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.480 always static things. This is the talk we have about 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.240 politics all the time. You can't just hide behind your walls. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.760 If they're pounding on your walls, or almost ready to 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.560 start pounding on your walls, you are going to have 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.440 to sally forth. You are going to have to leave 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.120 your walls and go try to fight them off, keep 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.040 them off of the walls. And they are doing this, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.679 they're riding out from Saint Elmo when they can, usually 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.920 at night. They're trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.560 attacking the trenches as you can imagine. So you have 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.600 those trench workers think what terrible luck this would be. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.600 You get stuck on trench duty. You're hot, you're thirsty, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.720 you're tired, your back hurts. You're chopping away at rock 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.800 all day, and you look up in time to see 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:32.600 a night riding down on you, shoving a sword into 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.360 your face. It is up close, it is personal, and 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.560 it is a war of hatred. But the lines continue 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.760 to get closer and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.640 the cannons have gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.200 They start knocking the walls down. But here's the problem. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.000 They're hitting the top of the walls, and they are 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.120 knocking the mid to top of the walls down. But 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.839 you can't send your troops over. If it's just the 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.160 top of the walls down. You are going to have 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.520 to send troops into the walls. You've got to attack 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:18.440 the foundation. Now along comes one of the real, allegedly 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.520 great leaders of the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name, to 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.360 worry about, remembering that his nickname stands for tell me 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.760 how cool this is the drawn sword of Islam. That's 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.240 kind of cool, right, you gotta be honest, that's kind 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.240 of cool. And I know no one's rooting for the 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.680 Ottomans right now, but that's kind of a cool nickname. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.640 Dragot notices the cannons are not firing, right. He's a 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.440 hands on type. You don't earn the nickname drawn sort 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.240 of Islam because you sit on your hands. And so 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.800 he charges up to the Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.840 lower the cannons. We have to hit the foundation. We 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.840 have to hit the bottom of the walls to drop it. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.040 Good for Dragot, but there is a reason many militaries 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:06.440 don't send their commanders out like this. Draggot catches a 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.480 bullet in the back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.920 on a fantastic Wednesday, Oh hopday. If you mess any 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.920 part of the show, you can download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.640 Ask doctor Jesse Thursday tomorrow. I'll get your questions emailed 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.560 into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.840 are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.080 and I already mentioned his mouth is full of water. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.960 It's the great harbor. And I told you last night 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.360 that you need to picture two teeth coming out the 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.760 bottom part of his jaw towards the back of his jaw. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:51.560 Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights. Four to five peninsulas. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.280 The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.880 been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.080 ships with cannons and things like that on them, why 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.320 don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:13.280 and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:18.760 remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth, 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.440 which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.360 can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.120 start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.880 teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.760 Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.480 you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.480 the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.679 way from home. They are currently south of what is 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.680 now Sicily. They have to when this is over, get 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:02.360 all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.440 a long sail and you need boats. So they have 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.240 to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.800 they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.200 finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.280 They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.480 big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.560 not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.560 down outer walls, and they're bringing their cannons up and 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:40.760 now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.080 What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.120 They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:54.960 the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.239 sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.320 of the gaps when they are not in the gaps 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.040 at night, I told you there were civilians inside of 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:15.119 Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians, they're grabbing mattresses, curtains, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.559 whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.960 that was just created for when the Ottomans come back 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:27.079 the next day and know this everybody by now everyone 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.120 in the fort, both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.240 is going to fall. At this point in time, the 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:41.040 Knights they send somebody across the harbor to dave Lllette. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.600 In fact, dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.960 Lette send someone to them. The knights across the harbor, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.199 and they say, hey, we can't hold this fort anymore, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.920 can we aband? Can we abandon it now? Can we 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.319 abandon it and come to the other Can we come 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.720 down to the tee? Can we come down to the 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:08.800 other fortifications. Dava Let tells them, no, you have to stay. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.000 Why was he just a jerk? You may have been 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.679 a jerk, I don't know. But every day the Ottomans 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:22.520 were being occupied with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.960 on the two teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.960 bigger and stronger and better, and Dvallet needed Fort Saint 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:36.040 Elmo to hold out as long as humanly possible. He 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:43.360 essentially ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.520 it's bad, and it's ugly, and people were dying on 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:51.080 both sides. Eventually, Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.440 something the Ottomans needed to happen in a few days. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.400 It took them a month to take what should have 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.840 been a few days. You're running out of food, you're 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.200 running out of water, and more importantly, remember those janissaries. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.560 I brought up the Ottoman elite troops. You took one 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:18.720 of the forts, and you lost half your janissaries. By 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.440 the time it's done, the Ottomans have lost roughly six 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.040 thousand of their men, and the Knights have lost about 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.400 a thousand out of about the three thousand they have. Yes, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.400 they lost Fort Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:42.600 unbelievably costly for the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.360 but you can argue, as of this point right now, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.800 the Ottomans have already lost the Siege of Malta. They 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.480 lost too many of their elite troops. They lost too 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.160 much time, too much food, too much water, too many 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.680 cannon balls. You should probably pack it up and head out. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.880 That's not an option, as you can probably imagine, if 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.760 you're an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.680 on back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.160 that your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.040 and you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.560 a good way to find your head on a spike. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.600 It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Wednesday. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.440 Setting aside politics, Doc and some Moore Siege of Malta. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.760 Now let's get right back into it. The Ottomans have 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.240 taken Fort Saint Elmo. Remember I told you in the 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.000 beginning there were four fortified locations on this island. Number 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.680 one is gone. Now they have to worry about the teeth. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.840 I told you this island. You need to picture it 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.960 like pac Man. In the mouth is the Great Harbor, 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.720 and pac Man has two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.120 These are eninsulas that jut out into the Great Harbor, 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.320 and they are fortified. There are civilians here, there are 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.520 the rest, essentially the rest of the Knights here. They 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.280 have been building fortifications and preparing for a long time 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.360 for these Ottomans to come. Remember I said before, if 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.400 you're the Ottomans, you can't just sail your boats right 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.160 into the harbor because the fortifications are gonna blow your 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.280 boats out of the water. But if you're the Ottomans, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.720 you understand your boats are a force multiplier. They can 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.520 carry troops, they have cannons on them. You need your 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.439 boats into the tonsils. Essentially, you need to get your 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.040 boats into the harbor, but you can't bring them in 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.600 through the mouth. What to do? What to do? Well, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.040 this is something the Ottomans have done before. History nerds 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.960 will know this. It's part of what they did at 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:58.280 the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans were they were wonderful engineers, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.200 and they were really great at combat. They figured out 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:07.880 how to haul gigantic boats over the land. And they 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:14.320 do picture how unbelievably labor intensive it would be to 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.520 no construction and equipment. Right, there's no engine. They hauled 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:23.440 their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. They hauled it down 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.879 over pac Man's forehead and landed their boats back into 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.520 pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. Now they have 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.560 their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over to the teeth. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.840 I told you. The teeth are jutting out the bottom 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.360 of pac Man's job. These are the two bottom peninsula fortifications. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:50.159 The Ottomans bring their cannons and their troops over land 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.119 and they start doing the same thing to these peninsulas 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.760 they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, digging in trenches, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:06.479 cannons and they start bombarding the place. The Ottomans. Now, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.240 I'm not going to stay desperate at all. But they're 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.760 looking at the clock, and this is going to be 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.800 important for our purposes here. It's not just food and 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.840 water that's presenting problems for them. Back in the day. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.640 We don't think about this as much now, but seed travel. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.840 Back in the day, the day of sail, the day 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:33.600 of the ore was very, very seasonal. When the weather 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.680 got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, when 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:42.720 winter came, the winds were not right, the waves were 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.320 not right. You couldn't just hop on the water anytime 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.080 you wanted to hop on the water and just go 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.520 sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:20:01.320 the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.040 Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.440 they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.000 and they decide they're going to try something. The troops 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.359 that are underneath the teeth, They're going to try to 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.119 throw them at the walls while at the same time 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:28.200 doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:33.719 using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.920 back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.520 things would have been going well, but there was something 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:49.320 they didn't quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.320 I said, they had been making preparations. Part of those 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:59.600 preparations were they had been putting up underwater spikes and 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:05.600 in anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.000 to do exactly what they were going to do. The 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.080 boats can't get all the way to the beach. They 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:15.160 stall out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:21.440 and they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves. 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.040 They're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly, 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:26.760 I just they need to make a movie about this. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.840 I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.119 making a miniseries about this. They are dying well. Now 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.040 the Ottomans try to press the issue and they decide 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.919 they're going to try to sail their boats around the 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.080 back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.640 they're thinking, well, they're cannons aren't going to get to us. 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:53.160 The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:59.720 sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:04.199 to sail the ships around the tooth and lo and 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:09.000 behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:13.040 like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:20.040 hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.560 out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.679 the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.960 on the ships are going down with them, and your 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:38.160 forces are being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.760 now I know you're thinking, aw all is gravy? Looks 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.520 like the Knights have it. Not at all. This has 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.560 been a tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.720 But remember the Knights only have so much food too, 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.160 only have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles 0:22:56.280 --> 0:23:00.440 for their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes, 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.840 they had tried to provision themselves, and they had done 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:07.680 very well, but they are in a real pickle. And 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:13.400 those Ottoman cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:17.400 are dropping. They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.640 And if the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:28.520 The Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls. And 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:34.880 now they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:39.040 the Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.400 figure out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:48.240 walls until it's almost too late. But they eventually do 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:52.040 figure it out. What do they do. There's really only 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:55.240 one thing you can do in that situation. You have 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.080 to dig down inside of your city. Remember this is 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:01.760 all by hand, and you have to dig a counter 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:08.680 tunnel looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:17.320 They find them. They meet under the walls of the 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:25.480 Knights in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:30.720 and they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.360 In the pitch black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right, 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:39.359 a nasty hand to hand combat war takes place in 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:45.600 the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:50.320 cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:56.480 have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now, 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:02.840 many people, many people to this. They believe that God 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:08.080 stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the nights. 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:14.159 Maybe you were skeptical that, maybe you believe that what 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:19.240 happens next is one of the main justifications people will 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:24.520 use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, He 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:28.720 saved them. I'll tell you what happens next. It is 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:33.120 the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember tomorrow is ask Doctor Jesse Friday. 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:35.520 You need to get your questions emailed it or asked 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.440 Doctor Jesse Thursday. You need to get your questions emailed 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:42.560 in now the Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. The 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.879 Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and the land. 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.960 Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so I'm worried. 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.800 I haven't been clear on that. It is mainly a 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:56.840 land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. That's 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.720 where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches are coming. 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:02.040 They're just trying to mix in as much of the 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.760 ocean as they can while they have the boats. And 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.639 the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say the 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.040 knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls are crumbling. 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.919 They're running out of men, they're running out of food, 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:19.359 they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly outnumbered still, 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.560 even though they've killed legions of these Ottomans, and the 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:29.120 Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans can taste victory. 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.320 Pause on that member. I told you there were four 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:37.399 locations pac Man's nose, pac Man's two teeth, and then 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:43.879 Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, but 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:48.760 you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little bit Indina. Well, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:53.000 Indina is aware they have a very very tiny force there, 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:57.080 a tiny force there. Indina is aware that the two 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:00.600 Teeth are in dire straits and if those fortifications fall, 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:04.800 it's over. The island will be taken. It's over. So 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:11.679 they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit. Not a 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:15.760 big unit, not a massive force. They're just going out 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.879 to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces, what's the 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.399 camp look like. Let's try to get word to this 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:26.359 or that. Before I get to any of that, I 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:30.520 do have to clarify how much hatred there is between 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:34.280 these sides, because this part is important. Remember I told 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:38.600 you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told you 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:43.520 that earlier, many many years earlier when Rhodes fell. Suliman 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:47.320 the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he was 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:50.960 angry that they were now fighting him when Fort Saint 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:57.240 Elmo fell, But the Ottomans took the few knights who 0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:05.240 were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they disembowed them, 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:12.800 desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, they 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:19.320 nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, and 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:23.800 then they floated them across the water back to the 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:30.960 other forts. This is a military orders. What's that feel 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:34.720 like if you're standing on the fort and you see 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:39.480 the headless, gutless corpse of your friend with a little 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:44.840 religious insult on top of it, floating at you. Yeah, 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:49.440 the Knights didn't take it well? How not well did 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:53.400