Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Show, Another hour of The Jesse Kelly
Speaker 1: Show on a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics
Speaker 1: for this hour and we go ahead and step back
Speaker 1: into history, we get ready to do the Siege of
Speaker 1: Malta Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it the final
Speaker 1: part of the Siege of Malta. And then final hour
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Selena Zita and we'll do emails and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about commies and filtrating your business and all
Speaker 1: kinds of other things. And I wanted to remind you
Speaker 1: tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Thursday, because I am out
Speaker 1: on Friday, so you gotta email your questions in to
Speaker 1: Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Now, the thirty second recap
Speaker 1: you're going to get from last night is the Nights
Speaker 1: of Saint John. They're given a horrible windswept rock known
Speaker 1: as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin fortifying it. There
Speaker 1: are four locations on it. They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire.
Speaker 1: The Muslim Empire is growing, they are taking over things
Speaker 1: they've taken. Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic Europe is petrified of
Speaker 1: the coming Muslim storm, and the Ottomans, having let the
Speaker 1: Knights of Saint John go once before, have had enough
Speaker 1: of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean, and they
Speaker 1: land a thirty thousand man force on Malta and they
Speaker 1: began to assault Fort number one. It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now,
Speaker 1: in this Fort Saint Elmo, there's roughly a thousand men.
Speaker 1: They are not all knights, trained, born in bred warriors
Speaker 1: at all. There are some knights, there are some other soldiers,
Speaker 1: so they're not all completely you know, untrained. And then
Speaker 1: there are civilians inside of the Fort Saint Elmo. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Ottoman forces. They have canons, obviously,
Speaker 1: so that both sides have cannons. This is the era
Speaker 1: of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans not only have cannons,
Speaker 1: they have a bunch of regular troops, and they also
Speaker 1: have elite troops. Now think about them like U, this
Speaker 1: is their special forces types. They're called janissaries. If you
Speaker 1: know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will know for
Speaker 1: a very long time they have had tip of the
Speaker 1: speared troops called janissaries. Now I want to pause for
Speaker 1: a second because this will apply to way more than
Speaker 1: this story. This applies to any military engagement you ever
Speaker 1: read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers, We
Speaker 1: obsess our numbers. They have so many thousand here, and
Speaker 1: he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand, and
Speaker 1: they have one hundred thousand, and they have the the
Speaker 1: But all troops are not the same, not at all.
Speaker 1: There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience
Speaker 1: and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and
Speaker 1: only you know, seven hundred knights on the island does
Speaker 1: not mean there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans
Speaker 1: who are lions on the battlefield. It does not mean
Speaker 1: that at all. The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions,
Speaker 1: highly highly experienced, and there's not that many of them
Speaker 1: because you can't make that many of them here. The
Speaker 1: numbers I read differed wildly. A lot of people say
Speaker 1: there are in total about six thousand of the thirty
Speaker 1: thousand ottomans where janisaries. That number doesn't matter. These little
Speaker 1: details are not important. Just know there are only so
Speaker 1: many of them, and then when they're gone, when they're dead,
Speaker 1: you're back to fairly pedestrian, regular troops. And on the
Speaker 1: other side as well. You know, we said there are
Speaker 1: seven hundred nights, some people say five hundred. Again, details
Speaker 1: don't matter, but there are other regular troops, some not many,
Speaker 1: but some. But they're not Knights. They're not guys who
Speaker 1: live and die for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I
Speaker 1: used pac Man as an example last night to try
Speaker 1: to explain the geography of what you're looking at here.
Speaker 1: And in pac Man's mouth obviously is water. It's a
Speaker 1: great harbor. But pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo.
Speaker 1: It is not not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did
Speaker 1: know they were coming, and they did build up the fortifications,
Speaker 1: but it is not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they
Speaker 1: get their cannons down, and as I pointed out last night,
Speaker 1: they began to dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are
Speaker 1: not built in a straight line. Remember, you have to
Speaker 1: zigzag in order to give your troops cover as they
Speaker 1: inch their way towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this
Speaker 1: is a rocky, miserable island, and right now it's hot.
Speaker 1: This island is south of Sicily. We're in the month
Speaker 1: of July. It's hot. Here's the unsexy part of so
Speaker 1: many battles, so many battles. Water you have to have it.
Speaker 1: This is hard work. Think about the daily life of
Speaker 1: the Ottoman soldier or slave. They had many, many slaves.
Speaker 1: As I pointed out, you are chipping and chopping away
Speaker 1: at rock. You need food and you need water. Even
Speaker 1: if you don't care about the lives of your slaves,
Speaker 1: and that's oftentimes how slaves are treated. You still don't
Speaker 1: want them to die. You need them digging. You have
Speaker 1: to feed them, You have to give them water. And
Speaker 1: it's an island surrounded by salt water, and there's not
Speaker 1: much water on the island. And guess what else I
Speaker 1: didn't tell you this last night. There are sources of
Speaker 1: fresh water on the island wells. Do you know what
Speaker 1: the knights did? What Da Volette, he's the leader of
Speaker 1: the knights. Do you know what he did before the
Speaker 1: Ottomans got there. He took dead animals and dropped them
Speaker 1: into all the freshwater sources that were outside of the fort. Obviously,
Speaker 1: as you you've just figured out now that water is rotten.
Speaker 1: Your men can't touch it, or your men will get
Speaker 1: sick and die. It is a race against time. Every
Speaker 1: single siege always is a race against time for both sides.
Speaker 1: The people inside only have so much water, only have
Speaker 1: so much ammo, only have so much food. That people
Speaker 1: outside only have so much water, only have so much ammo,
Speaker 1: only have so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away
Speaker 1: and chipping away with these trenches, inching closer and closer
Speaker 1: and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not
Speaker 1: always static things. This is the talk we have about
Speaker 1: politics all the time. You can't just hide behind your walls.
Speaker 1: If they're pounding on your walls, or almost ready to
Speaker 1: start pounding on your walls, you are going to have
Speaker 1: to sally forth. You are going to have to leave
Speaker 1: your walls and go try to fight them off, keep
Speaker 1: them off of the walls. And they are doing this,
Speaker 1: they're riding out from Saint Elmo when they can, usually
Speaker 1: at night. They're trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're
Speaker 1: attacking the trenches as you can imagine. So you have
Speaker 1: those trench workers think what terrible luck this would be.
Speaker 1: You get stuck on trench duty. You're hot, you're thirsty,
Speaker 1: you're tired, your back hurts. You're chopping away at rock
Speaker 1: all day, and you look up in time to see
Speaker 1: a night riding down on you, shoving a sword into
Speaker 1: your face. It is up close, it is personal, and
Speaker 1: it is a war of hatred. But the lines continue
Speaker 1: to get closer and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now
Speaker 1: the cannons have gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo.
Speaker 1: They start knocking the walls down. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: They're hitting the top of the walls, and they are
Speaker 1: knocking the mid to top of the walls down. But
Speaker 1: you can't send your troops over. If it's just the
Speaker 1: top of the walls down. You are going to have
Speaker 1: to send troops into the walls. You've got to attack
Speaker 1: the foundation. Now along comes one of the real, allegedly
Speaker 1: great leaders of the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name, to
Speaker 1: worry about, remembering that his nickname stands for tell me
Speaker 1: how cool this is the drawn sword of Islam. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cool, right, you gotta be honest, that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. And I know no one's rooting for the
Speaker 1: Ottomans right now, but that's kind of a cool nickname.
Speaker 1: Dragot notices the cannons are not firing, right. He's a
Speaker 1: hands on type. You don't earn the nickname drawn sort
Speaker 1: of Islam because you sit on your hands. And so
Speaker 1: he charges up to the Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots,
Speaker 1: lower the cannons. We have to hit the foundation. We
Speaker 1: have to hit the bottom of the walls to drop it.
Speaker 1: Good for Dragot, but there is a reason many militaries
Speaker 1: don't send their commanders out like this. Draggot catches a
Speaker 1: bullet in the back. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
Speaker 1: on a fantastic Wednesday, Oh hopday. If you mess any
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Speaker 1: into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans
Speaker 1: are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right,
Speaker 1: and I already mentioned his mouth is full of water.
Speaker 1: It's the great harbor. And I told you last night
Speaker 1: that you need to picture two teeth coming out the
Speaker 1: bottom part of his jaw towards the back of his jaw.
Speaker 1: Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights. Four to five peninsulas.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've
Speaker 1: been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships,
Speaker 1: ships with cannons and things like that on them, why
Speaker 1: don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor
Speaker 1: and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well,
Speaker 1: remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth,
Speaker 1: which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You
Speaker 1: can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and
Speaker 1: start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two
Speaker 1: teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships.
Speaker 1: Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and
Speaker 1: you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long
Speaker 1: way from home. They are currently south of what is
Speaker 1: now Sicily. They have to when this is over, get
Speaker 1: all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's
Speaker 1: a long sail and you need boats. So they have
Speaker 1: to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now
Speaker 1: they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they
Speaker 1: finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo.
Speaker 1: They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo,
Speaker 1: big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact,
Speaker 1: not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking
Speaker 1: down outer walls, and they're bringing their cannons up and
Speaker 1: now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls.
Speaker 1: What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things.
Speaker 1: They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in
Speaker 1: the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand
Speaker 1: sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside
Speaker 1: of the gaps when they are not in the gaps
Speaker 1: at night, I told you there were civilians inside of
Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians, they're grabbing mattresses, curtains,
Speaker 1: whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap
Speaker 1: that was just created for when the Ottomans come back
Speaker 1: the next day and know this everybody by now everyone
Speaker 1: in the fort, both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo
Speaker 1: is going to fall. At this point in time, the
Speaker 1: Knights they send somebody across the harbor to dave Lllette.
Speaker 1: In fact, dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave
Speaker 1: Lette send someone to them. The knights across the harbor,
Speaker 1: and they say, hey, we can't hold this fort anymore,
Speaker 1: can we aband? Can we abandon it now? Can we
Speaker 1: abandon it and come to the other Can we come
Speaker 1: down to the tee? Can we come down to the
Speaker 1: other fortifications. Dava Let tells them, no, you have to stay.
Speaker 1: Why was he just a jerk? You may have been
Speaker 1: a jerk, I don't know. But every day the Ottomans
Speaker 1: were being occupied with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications
Speaker 1: on the two teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better,
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger and better, and Dvallet needed Fort Saint
Speaker 1: Elmo to hold out as long as humanly possible. He
Speaker 1: essentially ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and
Speaker 1: it's bad, and it's ugly, and people were dying on
Speaker 1: both sides. Eventually, Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was
Speaker 1: something the Ottomans needed to happen in a few days.
Speaker 1: It took them a month to take what should have
Speaker 1: been a few days. You're running out of food, you're
Speaker 1: running out of water, and more importantly, remember those janissaries.
Speaker 1: I brought up the Ottoman elite troops. You took one
Speaker 1: of the forts, and you lost half your janissaries. By
Speaker 1: the time it's done, the Ottomans have lost roughly six
Speaker 1: thousand of their men, and the Knights have lost about
Speaker 1: a thousand out of about the three thousand they have. Yes,
Speaker 1: they lost Fort Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was
Speaker 1: unbelievably costly for the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree,
Speaker 1: but you can argue, as of this point right now,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans have already lost the Siege of Malta. They
Speaker 1: lost too many of their elite troops. They lost too
Speaker 1: much time, too much food, too much water, too many
Speaker 1: cannon balls. You should probably pack it up and head out.
Speaker 1: That's not an option, as you can probably imagine, if
Speaker 1: you're an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise
Speaker 1: on back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent
Speaker 1: that your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure
Speaker 1: and you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's
Speaker 1: a good way to find your head on a spike.
Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Setting aside politics, Doc and some Moore Siege of Malta.
Speaker 1: Now let's get right back into it. The Ottomans have
Speaker 1: taken Fort Saint Elmo. Remember I told you in the
Speaker 1: beginning there were four fortified locations on this island. Number
Speaker 1: one is gone. Now they have to worry about the teeth.
Speaker 1: I told you this island. You need to picture it
Speaker 1: like pac Man. In the mouth is the Great Harbor,
Speaker 1: and pac Man has two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw.
Speaker 1: These are eninsulas that jut out into the Great Harbor,
Speaker 1: and they are fortified. There are civilians here, there are
Speaker 1: the rest, essentially the rest of the Knights here. They
Speaker 1: have been building fortifications and preparing for a long time
Speaker 1: for these Ottomans to come. Remember I said before, if
Speaker 1: you're the Ottomans, you can't just sail your boats right
Speaker 1: into the harbor because the fortifications are gonna blow your
Speaker 1: boats out of the water. But if you're the Ottomans,
Speaker 1: you understand your boats are a force multiplier. They can
Speaker 1: carry troops, they have cannons on them. You need your
Speaker 1: boats into the tonsils. Essentially, you need to get your
Speaker 1: boats into the harbor, but you can't bring them in
Speaker 1: through the mouth. What to do? What to do? Well,
Speaker 1: this is something the Ottomans have done before. History nerds
Speaker 1: will know this. It's part of what they did at
Speaker 1: the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans were they were wonderful engineers,
Speaker 1: and they were really great at combat. They figured out
Speaker 1: how to haul gigantic boats over the land. And they
Speaker 1: do picture how unbelievably labor intensive it would be to
Speaker 1: no construction and equipment. Right, there's no engine. They hauled
Speaker 1: their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. They hauled it down
Speaker 1: over pac Man's forehead and landed their boats back into
Speaker 1: pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. Now they have
Speaker 1: their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over to the teeth.
Speaker 1: I told you. The teeth are jutting out the bottom
Speaker 1: of pac Man's job. These are the two bottom peninsula fortifications.
Speaker 1: The Ottomans bring their cannons and their troops over land
Speaker 1: and they start doing the same thing to these peninsulas
Speaker 1: they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, digging in trenches,
Speaker 1: cannons and they start bombarding the place. The Ottomans. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to stay desperate at all. But they're
Speaker 1: looking at the clock, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: important for our purposes here. It's not just food and
Speaker 1: water that's presenting problems for them. Back in the day.
Speaker 1: We don't think about this as much now, but seed travel.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, the day of sail, the day
Speaker 1: of the ore was very, very seasonal. When the weather
Speaker 1: got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, when
Speaker 1: winter came, the winds were not right, the waves were
Speaker 1: not right. You couldn't just hop on the water anytime
Speaker 1: you wanted to hop on the water and just go
Speaker 1: sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall.
Speaker 1: Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in
Speaker 1: and they decide they're going to try something. The troops
Speaker 1: that are underneath the teeth, They're going to try to
Speaker 1: throw them at the walls while at the same time
Speaker 1: doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing
Speaker 1: using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the
Speaker 1: back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well,
Speaker 1: things would have been going well, but there was something
Speaker 1: they didn't quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like
Speaker 1: I said, they had been making preparations. Part of those
Speaker 1: preparations were they had been putting up underwater spikes and
Speaker 1: in anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming
Speaker 1: to do exactly what they were going to do. The
Speaker 1: boats can't get all the way to the beach. They
Speaker 1: stall out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops
Speaker 1: and they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves.
Speaker 1: They're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I just they need to make a movie about this.
Speaker 1: I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's
Speaker 1: making a miniseries about this. They are dying well. Now
Speaker 1: the Ottomans try to press the issue and they decide
Speaker 1: they're going to try to sail their boats around the
Speaker 1: back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and
Speaker 1: they're thinking, well, they're cannons aren't going to get to us.
Speaker 1: The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at
Speaker 1: sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start
Speaker 1: to sail the ships around the tooth and lo and
Speaker 1: behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a
Speaker 1: like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a
Speaker 1: hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right
Speaker 1: out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for
Speaker 1: the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops
Speaker 1: on the ships are going down with them, and your
Speaker 1: forces are being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I know you're thinking, aw all is gravy? Looks
Speaker 1: like the Knights have it. Not at all. This has
Speaker 1: been a tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans.
Speaker 1: But remember the Knights only have so much food too,
Speaker 1: only have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles
Speaker 1: for their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes,
Speaker 1: they had tried to provision themselves, and they had done
Speaker 1: very well, but they are in a real pickle. And
Speaker 1: those Ottoman cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls
Speaker 1: are dropping. They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly.
Speaker 1: And if the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it.
Speaker 1: The Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls. And
Speaker 1: now they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't
Speaker 1: figure out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their
Speaker 1: walls until it's almost too late. But they eventually do
Speaker 1: figure it out. What do they do. There's really only
Speaker 1: one thing you can do in that situation. You have
Speaker 1: to dig down inside of your city. Remember this is
Speaker 1: all by hand, and you have to dig a counter
Speaker 1: tunnel looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology.
Speaker 1: They find them. They meet under the walls of the
Speaker 1: Knights in the dark with muskets and swords and spears,
Speaker 1: and they have a nasty hand to hand combat war.
Speaker 1: In the pitch black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right,
Speaker 1: a nasty hand to hand combat war takes place in
Speaker 1: the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they
Speaker 1: cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they
Speaker 1: have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now,
Speaker 1: many people, many people to this. They believe that God
Speaker 1: stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the nights.
Speaker 1: Maybe you were skeptical that, maybe you believe that what
Speaker 1: happens next is one of the main justifications people will
Speaker 1: use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, He
Speaker 1: saved them. I'll tell you what happens next. It is
Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember tomorrow is ask Doctor Jesse Friday.
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Speaker 1: Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and the land.
Speaker 1: Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so I'm worried.
Speaker 1: I haven't been clear on that. It is mainly a
Speaker 1: land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. That's
Speaker 1: where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches are coming.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to mix in as much of the
Speaker 1: ocean as they can while they have the boats. And
Speaker 1: the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say the
Speaker 1: knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls are crumbling.
Speaker 1: They're running out of men, they're running out of food,
Speaker 1: they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly outnumbered still,
Speaker 1: even though they've killed legions of these Ottomans, and the
Speaker 1: Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans can taste victory.
Speaker 1: Pause on that member. I told you there were four
Speaker 1: locations pac Man's nose, pac Man's two teeth, and then
Speaker 1: Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, but
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little bit Indina. Well,
Speaker 1: Indina is aware they have a very very tiny force there,
Speaker 1: a tiny force there. Indina is aware that the two
Speaker 1: Teeth are in dire straits and if those fortifications fall,
Speaker 1: it's over. The island will be taken. It's over. So
Speaker 1: they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit. Not a
Speaker 1: big unit, not a massive force. They're just going out
Speaker 1: to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces, what's the
Speaker 1: camp look like. Let's try to get word to this
Speaker 1: or that. Before I get to any of that, I
Speaker 1: do have to clarify how much hatred there is between
Speaker 1: these sides, because this part is important. Remember I told
Speaker 1: you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told you
Speaker 1: that earlier, many many years earlier when Rhodes fell. Suliman
Speaker 1: the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he was
Speaker 1: angry that they were now fighting him when Fort Saint
Speaker 1: Elmo fell, But the Ottomans took the few knights who
Speaker 1: were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they disembowed them,
Speaker 1: desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, they
Speaker 1: nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, and
Speaker 1: then they floated them across the water back to the
Speaker 1: other forts. This is a military orders. What's that feel
Speaker 1: like if you're standing on the fort and you see
Speaker 1: the headless, gutless corpse of your friend with a little
Speaker 1: religious insult on top of it, floating at you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Knights didn't take it well? How not well did
Speaker 1: they take it? They took all the Ottoman prisoners they had,
Speaker 1: or a bunch of them. I heard all, and I
Speaker 1: heard a bunch. I don't know which is true. And
Speaker 1: they chopped their heads off, and they loaded their heads
Speaker 1: into the knight's cannons, and they started firing the heads
Speaker 1: of the captured Ottoman prisoners back towards the Ottoman lines.
Speaker 1: This is the degree of hatred we're dealing with. And
Speaker 1: I saved that little story so you can understand what
Speaker 1: is at stake. As the Ottomans are now knocking down
Speaker 1: the walls of what are essentially the last two fortifications.
Speaker 1: You with me, This is hand to hand. Deve Alette,
Speaker 1: who is the leader, is not hiding out in his
Speaker 1: command post. He is crossing swords with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming,
Speaker 1: horrible hand to hand cannons. It's as bad as you
Speaker 1: can imagine. Back to Mdina, Back to the recon force.
Speaker 1: This force rides out just sniffing around, and by Godd's providence,
Speaker 1: by accident. I don't know what you want to say.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there and I haven't asked God about it,
Speaker 1: they come across a gold mine. They come across the undefended,
Speaker 1: relatively undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are,
Speaker 1: where the wounded are being treated, where all their supplies are.
Speaker 1: The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp
Speaker 1: and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and
Speaker 1: then burning everything down on fire. Remember, at this exact moment,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to
Speaker 1: win the entire island. They turn around and their camp
Speaker 1: is on fire. They freak out, call out the attack,
Speaker 1: which you would, and go charging back toward the This
Speaker 1: is happening in the matter of an hour, people say minutes,
Speaker 1: it depends on what you believe. Minutes away from Malta falling,
Speaker 1: they ride back towards the camp. The reconunit gets out.
Speaker 1: It is a horrible, horrible thing. The Ottomans now they're
Speaker 1: probably completely defeated, they've lost another four to six thousand,
Speaker 1: but they don't feel like they can just quit. They
Speaker 1: have to try something else, anything else, So they ride
Speaker 1: towards Mdina pac Man's tonsils. M Dina is to say
Speaker 1: lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's almost no
Speaker 1: one there. They have almost no cannonballs, so they take
Speaker 1: everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians. They stand them
Speaker 1: on the walls and dress them up like soldiers, and
Speaker 1: then they take the few cannon balls they have and
Speaker 1: they shoot them at the Ottoman force when the Ottomans
Speaker 1: are out of range. Why they want the Ottomans to
Speaker 1: think they're loaded with cannonballs. We have as many, We
Speaker 1: have so many we'll shoot them at you before you
Speaker 1: even get close enough. The Ottomans, by now their spirit
Speaker 1: is broken. They get shot at from out of range.
Speaker 1: They see all these air fingers quote troops on top
Speaker 1: of m Dina and they say, screw this, We're leaving.
Speaker 1: They start marching back towards the other two teeth. I
Speaker 1: will wrap this up. It'll probably take me five minutes,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get back to politics in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But for all intents and purposes, the siege of Malta
Speaker 1: is pretty much much broken. It's mop up time. Now.
Speaker 1: Before we mop up, let's do a little bit of
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