1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse 2 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics for this 4 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: hour and we go ahead and step back into history, 5 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: we get ready to do the Siege of Malta Part two. 6 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: I'm hoping I'll make it the final part of the 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: Siege of Malta. And then final hour we're gonna have 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: Selena Zita and we'll do emails and we'll talk about 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: commies and filtrating your business and all kinds of other things. 10 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: And I wanted to remind you tomorrow is Ask Doctor 11 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: Jesse Thursday, because I am out on Friday, so you 12 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: gotta email your questions into Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. 13 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: How the thirty second recap you're going to get from 14 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: last night is the Knights of Saint John. They're given 15 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: a horrible windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily. 16 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: They begin fortifying it. There are four locations on it. 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing. 18 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: They are taking over things. They've taken Constantinople Christian slash 19 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: Catholic Europe is petrified of the coming Muslim storm, and 20 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: the Ottomans, having let the Knights of Saint John go 21 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: once before, have had enough of their raiding and pillaging 22 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean, and they land a thirty thousand man 23 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: force on Malta and they began to assault Fort number one. 24 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now, in this Fort Saint Elmo, 25 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: there's roughly a thousand men. They are not all knights, trained, 26 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: born and bred warriors at all. There are some knights, 27 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: there are some other soldiers, so they're not all completely 28 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: you know, untrained. And then there are civilians inside of 29 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: the Fort Saint Elmo. Now let's talk about the Ottoman forces. 30 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: They have cannons, obviously, so that both sides have cannons. 31 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: This is the era of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: not only have cannons, they have a bunch of regular 33 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: troops and they also have elite troops. Now think about 34 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: them like this is their special forces types. They're called janissaries. 35 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: If you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will 36 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: know for a very long time they have had tip 37 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: of the speared troops called janissaries, now I want to 38 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: pause for a second, because this will apply to way 39 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 1: more than this story. This applies to any military engagement 40 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: you ever read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers. 41 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 1: We obsess over numbers. They have so many thousand here, 42 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: and he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand, 43 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: and they have one hundred thousand, and they have the 44 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: But all troops are not the same, not at all. 45 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience 46 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and 47 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: only seven hundred knights on the island does not mean 48 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans who are 49 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: lions on the battlefield. It does not mean that at all. 50 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, highly highly experienced, 51 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: and there's not that many of them because you can't 52 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: make that many of them here. The numbers I read 53 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: differed wildly. A lot of people say there are in 54 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: total about six thousand of the thirty thousand Ottomans where janisaries. 55 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: That number doesn't matter. These little details are not important. 56 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: Just know there are only so many of them, and 57 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: then when they're gone, when they're dead. You're back to 58 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: fairly pedestrian regular troops. And on the other side as well. 59 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: You know, we said there are seven hundred nights, some 60 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: people say five hundred. Again, details don't matter, but there 61 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: are other regular troops, some not many, but some. But 62 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: they're not Knights. They're not guys who live and die 63 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I use pac Man 64 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: as an example last night to try to explain the 65 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: geography of what you're looking at here. And in pac 66 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: Man's mouth obviously is water, it's a great harbor. But 67 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. It is not 68 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did know they were coming, 69 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: and they did build up the fortifications, but it is 70 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they get their cannons down, 71 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: and as I pointed out last night, they began to 72 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are not built in 73 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: a straight line. Remember, you have to zigzag in order 74 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: to give your troops cover as they inch their way 75 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this is a rocky, 76 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: miserable island, and right now it's hot. This island is 77 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: south of Sicily. We're in the month of July. It's hot. 78 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: Here's the unsexy part of so many battles, so many battles. 79 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: Water you have to have it. This is hard work. 80 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: Think about the daily life of the Ottoman soldier or slave. 81 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: They had many, many slaves. As I pointed out, you 82 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: are chipping and chopping away at rock. You need food 83 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: and you need water. Even if you don't care about 84 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: the lives of your slaves, and that's oftentimes how slaves 85 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: are treated, you still don't want them to die. You 86 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: need them digging. You have to feed them, you have 87 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: to give them water. And it's an island surrounded by 88 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: salt water, and there's not much water on the island. 89 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: And guess what else I didn't tell you this last night. 90 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: There are sources of fresh water on the island wells. 91 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: Do you know what the Knights did? What da Volette, 92 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: he's the leader of the knights. Do you know what 93 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: he did before the Ottomans got there. He took dead 94 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: animals and dropped them into all the fresh water sources 95 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: that were outside of the fort. Obviously, as you've just 96 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: figured out now, that water is rotten. Your men can't 97 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: touch it, or your men will get sick and die. 98 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: It is a race against time. Every single siege always 99 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: is a race against time for both sides. The people 100 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,559 Speaker 1: inside only have so much water, only have so much ammo, 101 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: only have so much food. The people outside only have 102 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: so much water, only have so much ammo, only have 103 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away and chipping 104 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: away with these trenches, inching closer and closer and closer 105 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not always static things. 106 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: This is a talk we have about politics all the time. 107 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: You can't just hide behind your walls. If they're pounding 108 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: on your walls, or almost ready to start pounding on 109 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: your walls, you are going to have to sally forth. 110 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: You are going to have to leave your walls and 111 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: go try to fight them off, keep them off of 112 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: the walls. And they are doing this, they're riding out 113 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: from Saint Elmo when they can, usually at night. They're 114 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're attacking the trenches, 115 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: as you can imagine. So you have those trench workers 116 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: think what terrible luck this would be. You get stuck 117 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: on trench duty. You're hot you're thirsty, you're tired, your 118 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: back hurts, you're chopping away at rock all day, and 119 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: you look up in time to see a night riding 120 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: down on you, shoving a sword into your face. It 121 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: is up close, it is personal, and it is a 122 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: war of hatred. But the lines continue to get closer 123 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now the cannons have 124 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. They start knocking 125 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: the walls down. But here's the problem. They're hitting the 126 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: top of the walls and they are knocking the mid 127 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: to top of the walls down. But you can't send 128 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: your troops over. If it's just the top of the 129 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: walls down, you are going to have to send troops 130 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: into the walls. You've got to attack the foundation. Now 131 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: along comes one of the real, allegedly great leaders of 132 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name. Don't worry about remembering that. 133 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: His nickname stands for Tell me how cool this is 134 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: the drawn sword of Islam. That's kind of cool, right, 135 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: you gotta be honest, that's kind of cool. And I 136 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: know no one's rooting for the Ottomans right now, but 137 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: that's kind of a cool. Nickname Dragot, notices the cannons 138 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: are not firing, right. He's a hands on type. You 139 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: don't earn the nickname drawn sort of Islam because sit 140 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: on your hands. And so he charges up to the 141 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, lower the cannons. We 142 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: have to hit the foundation. We have to hit the 143 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: bottom of the walls to drop it. Good for Drawgot, 144 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: But there is a reason many militaries don't send their 145 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: commanders out like this. Drawgot catches a bullet in the back. Allegedly, 146 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: no one will ever know for sure from his own troops. 147 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: By the way. Some people say the head, some people 148 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: say the back. It was an accident, Chris, it was 149 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: an accident. He goes back to his lines, mortally wounded, 150 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: and dies five days later. Now you have a morale 151 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: problem for the Ottomans. Pause on this. We'll continue in 152 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: a moment. Before we continue, let's save a life. There's 153 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: always time to set a side phone and set aside politics, 154 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: and set aside twenty eight dollars to have a baby 155 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: that can't save itself. These stories. 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I'll get your questions emailed 174 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans 175 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right 176 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: and I already mentioned. His mouth is full of water. 177 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: It's the Great Harbor. And I told you last night 178 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: that you need to picture two teeth coming out the 179 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: bottom part of his jaw, towards the back of his jaw. 180 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights, four to fied peninsulas. 181 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've 182 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships, 183 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: ships with cannons and things like that on them, why 184 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor 185 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well, 186 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth, 187 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 1: which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You 188 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and 189 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two 190 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships. 191 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and 192 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind, 193 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long 194 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: way from home. They are currently south of what is 195 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: now Sicily they have to when this is over, get 196 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's 197 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: a long sail and you need boats. So they have 198 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now 199 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they 200 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo. 201 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo, 202 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact, 203 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking 204 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: down outer walls and they're bringing their cannons up and 205 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls. 206 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things. 207 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in 208 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand 209 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside 210 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: of the gaps when they are not in the gaps. 211 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: At night, I told you there were civilians inside of 212 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians. They're grabbing mattresses, curtains, 213 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap 214 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: that was just created for when the Ottomans come back 215 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: the next day and know this everybody by now, everyone 216 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: in the fort both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo 217 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: is going to fall at this point in time. The Knights, 218 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: they send somebody across the harbor to Develllette. In fact, 219 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave Lette send 220 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: someone to them, the Knights across the harbor, and they say, hey, 221 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: we can't hold this fort anymore, can we aband? Can 222 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: we abandon it now? Can we abandon it and come 223 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: to the other Can we come down to the teeth? 224 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: Can we come down to the other fortifications. Dave Lette 225 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: tells them, no, you have to stay. Why was he 226 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: just a jerk? You may have been a jerk, I 227 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: don't know. But every day the Ottomans were being occupied 228 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications on the two 229 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, bigger and 230 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: stronger and better, and deva Lette needed Fort Saint Elmo 231 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: to hold out as long as humanly possible. He essentially 232 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and it's 233 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: bad and it's ugly, and people were dying on both sides. Eventually, 234 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was something the Ottomans 235 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: needed to happen in a few days. It took them 236 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: a month to take what should have been a few days. 237 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: You're running out of food, you're running out of water, 238 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: and more importantly, remember those Janet series I brought up 239 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: the Ottoman elite troops. You took one of the forts, 240 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: and you lost half your janissaries. By the time it's done, 241 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: the Ottomans have lost roughly six thousand of their men, 242 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: and the Knights have lost about a thousand out of 243 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: about the three thousand they have. Yes, they lost Fort 244 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was unbelievably costly for 245 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, but you 246 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 1: can argue, as of this point, right now, the Ottomans 247 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: have already lost the Siege of Malta. They lost too 248 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: many of their elite troops. They lost too much time, 249 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 1: too much food, too much water, too many cannon balls. 250 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: You should probably pack it up and head out. That's 251 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: not an option, as you can probably imagine, if you're 252 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise on 253 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,479 Speaker 1: back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent that 254 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure and 255 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's a 256 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: good way to find your head on a spike. So 257 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: now that you have Fort Saint Elmo, you have to 258 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: go take the two teeth, Senglia and Burgo. That's what 259 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: we're gonna call them, Seglia and Burgo. They have forts 260 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: on them that are called it. We're just gonna make 261 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: it simple. Senglia and Burgo. That's where we go next. 262 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: Before we go there, I bet the Ottomans wish they 263 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: had had a way to replace their fallen general, but 264 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: there was no zip recruiter back then. If there had been, 265 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: you could have immediately gotten online to ZipRecruiter dot com 266 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: slash Jesse and instead of having one thousand wannabe generals 267 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: to choose from, zip Recruiter's powerful matching technology would sift 268 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: through all the garbage generals and find you the best ones. 269 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: That's why four out of five employers find somebody great 270 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: on the very first day. Let zip recruiter help you 271 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: in a way they couldn't help the Ottomans. You don't 272 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: have to wait months. You don't have to sift through 273 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: a thousand resumes. They'll find you someone good quickly so 274 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: you can get back to the business of business. Don't 275 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 1: get stuck like the Ottomans did. ZipRecruiter dot com slash 276 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: Jesse All right, we continue next. He doesn't care if 277 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 1: you believe him, but he's right, Jesse Kelly. It is 278 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday. Setting aside politics, 279 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,239 Speaker 1: docking some more. Siege of Malta. Now let's get right 280 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: back into it. The Ottomans have taken Fort Saint Elmo. 281 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: Remember I told you in the beginning there were four 282 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: fortified locations on this island. Number one is gone. Now 283 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 1: they have to worry about the teeth. I told you 284 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: this island. You need to picture it like Pacban in 285 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: the mouth is the Great Harbor, and pac Band has 286 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. These are peninsulas 287 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: that jut out into the Great Harbor, and they are fortified. 288 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: There are civilians here. There are the rest, essentially the 289 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: rest of the Knights here. They have been building fortifications 290 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: and preparing for a long time for these Ottomans to come. 291 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: Remember I said before, if you're the Ottomans, you can't 292 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: just sail your boats right into the harbor because the 293 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: fortifications are going to blow your boats out of the water. 294 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,239 Speaker 1: But if you're the Ottomans, you understand your boats are 295 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: a force multiplier. They can carry troops, they have cannons 296 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: on them. You need your boats into the tonsils. Essentially, 297 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: you need to get your boats into the harbor, but 298 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: you can't bring them in through the mouth. What to do? 299 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: What to do? Well, this is something the Ottomans have 300 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: done before. History nerds will know this. It's part of 301 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: what they did at the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans 302 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: were they were wonderful engineers, and they were really great 303 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: at combat. They figured out how to haul gigantic boats 304 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: over the land. And they do picture how unbelievably labor 305 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: intensive it would be to no construction and equipment. Right, 306 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: there's no engine. They hauled their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. 307 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: They hauled it down over pac Man's forehead and landed 308 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: their boats back into pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. 309 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: Now they have their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over 310 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: to the teeth. I told you, the teeth are jutting 311 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: out the bottom of pack man's job. These are the 312 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: two bottom peninsula fortifications. The Ottomans bring their cannons and 313 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: their troops over land and they start doing the same 314 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 1: thing to these peninsulas they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, 315 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: digging in trenches, cannons and they start bombarding the place. 316 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: The Ottomans, now, I'm not going to stay desperate at all, 317 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: but they're looking at the clock and this is going 318 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: to be important for our purposes here. It's not just 319 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: food and water that's presenting problems for them. Back in 320 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: the day. We don't think about this as much now, 321 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: but see travel. Back in the day, the day of sale, 322 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: the day of the ore was very, very seasonal. When 323 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: the weather got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, 324 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: when winter came, the winds were not right, the waves 325 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: were not right. You couldn't just hop on the water 326 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: anytime you wanted to hop on the water and just 327 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: go sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah, 328 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall. 329 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances 330 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in 331 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: and they decide they're going to try something the troops 332 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: that are underneath the teeth. They're going to try to 333 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: throw them at the walls while at the same time 334 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:48,679 Speaker 1: doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing 335 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the 336 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well, 337 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: have been going well, but there was something they didn't 338 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like I said, 339 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: they had been making preparations. Part of those preparations were 340 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: they had been putting up underwater spikes and steaks in 341 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:26,239 Speaker 1: anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming to 342 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: do exactly what they were going to do. The boats 343 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: can't get all the way to the beach. They stall 344 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops and 345 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves, 346 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: they're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly, 347 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: I just they need to make a movie about this. 348 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's 349 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: making a mini series about this. They are dying. Well, now, 350 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: the Ottomans try to press the issue, and they decide 351 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: they're going to try to sail their boats around the 352 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and 353 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: they're thinking, well, their cannons aren't going to get to us. 354 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at 355 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start 356 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: to sail the ships around the tooth, and lo and 357 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a 358 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a 359 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right 360 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for 361 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops 362 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: on the ships are going down with them, and your 363 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: forces are. 364 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 2: Being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, now I 365 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 2: know you're thinking, a all is gravy, looks like the 366 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 2: Knights have it not at all. This has been a 367 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 2: tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. But 368 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 2: remember the Knights only have so much food too, only 369 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 2: have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles. For 370 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 2: their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes, 371 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 2: they had tried to provision themselves and they had done 372 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 2: very well. 373 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: But they are in a real pickle. And those Ottoman 374 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls are dropping. 375 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. And if 376 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. The 377 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls and now 378 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, the 379 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't figure 380 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their walls 381 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 1: until it's almost too late, but they eventually do figure 382 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: it out. What do they do. There's really only one 383 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: thing you can do in that situation. You have to 384 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: dig down inside of your city. Remember this is all 385 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: by hand, and you have to dig a counter tunnel. 386 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: Looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. They 387 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: find them. They meet under the walls of the Knights 388 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, and 389 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. In 390 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: the pitch. Black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right, 391 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: a nasty hand to hand combat. War takes place in 392 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they 393 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they 394 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now, 395 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: many people, many people to this day, they believe that 396 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: God stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the Knights. 397 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,239 Speaker 1: Maybe you are skeptical of that. Maybe you believe that 398 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: what happens next is one of the main justifications people 399 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: will use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, 400 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: He saved them. I'll tell you what happens next in 401 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: a moment before I do that. You can keep nerding 402 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: out on history. 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You need to get your questions emailed or 421 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: asked Doctor Jesse Thursday. You need to get your questions 422 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: emailed in now the Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 423 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: The Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and 424 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: the land. Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so 425 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: I'm worried. I haven't been clear on that. It is 426 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: mainly a land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. 427 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: That's where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches 428 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: are coming. They're just trying to mix in as much 429 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: of the ocean as they can while they have the boats. 430 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: And the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say 431 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: the knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls 432 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: are crumbling. They're running out of men, they're running out 433 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: of food, they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly 434 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: outnumbered still even though they've killed legions of these autisms, 435 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: and the Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans 436 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: can taste victory. Pause on that. Remember I told you 437 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: there were four locations pac Man's Nose, pac Man's two teeth, 438 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: and then Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, 439 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: but you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little 440 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: bit Indina. Well, Indina is aware they have a very 441 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: very tiny force there, a tiny force there. Indina is 442 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: aware that the two Teeth are in dire straits and 443 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: if those fortifications fall, it's over. The island will be taken. 444 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: It's over. So they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit, 445 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: not a big unit, not a massive force. They're just 446 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: going out to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces. 447 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: What's the camp look like, let's try to word to 448 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: this or that. Before I get to any of that, 449 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: I do have to clarify how much hatred there is 450 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: between these sides, because this part is important. Remember I 451 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: told you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told 452 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: you that earlier, many many years earlier, when Rhodes fell. 453 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: Suliman the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he 454 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: was angry that they were now fighting him when Fort 455 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: Saint Elmo fell. But the Ottomans took the few knights 456 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: who were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they 457 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: disembowed them, desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, 458 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: they nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, 459 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: and then they floated them across the water back to 460 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: the other forts. This is this is a military orders. 461 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: What's that feel like if you're standing on the fort 462 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: and you see the headless, gutless corpse of your friend 463 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: with a little religious insult on top of it, floating 464 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: at you. Yeah, the Knights didn't take it well? How 465 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: not well did they take it? They took all the 466 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: Ottoman prisoners they had, or a bunch of them. I 467 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: heard all and I heard a bunch I don't know 468 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 1: which is true, And they chopped their heads off, and 469 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: they loaded their heads into the knights cannons, and they 470 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: started firing the heads of the captured Ottoman prisoners back 471 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: towards the Ottoman lines. This is the degree of hatred 472 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: we're dealing with. And I saved that little story so 473 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: you can understand what is at stake. As the autumn 474 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: are now knocking down the walls of what are essentially 475 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,840 Speaker 1: the last two fortifications. You with me, this is hand 476 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: to hand. Deve Alette, who is the leader, is not 477 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: hiding out in his command post. He is crossing swords 478 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:22,720 Speaker 1: with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming, horrible, hand 479 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,760 Speaker 1: to hand cannons. It's as bad as you can imagine. 480 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: Back to Mdina, back to the recon force. This force 481 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: rides out just sniffing around and by God's providence, by accident. 482 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to say. I wasn't 483 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: there and I haven't asked God about it. They come 484 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: across a gold mine. They come across the undefended, relatively 485 00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 1: undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are, where 486 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: the wounded are being treated where all their supplies are. 487 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp 488 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and 489 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: then burning everything down on fire. Remember at this exact moment, 490 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to 491 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: win the entire island. They turn around and their camp 492 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: is on fire. 493 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 3: They freak out, call out the attack, which you would, 494 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,240 Speaker 3: and go charging back toward the camp. This is happening 495 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 3: in the matter of an hour, people say minutes, it 496 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 3: depends on what you believe. 497 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: Minutes away from Malta falling, they ride back towards the camp. 498 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: The reconunit gets out. It is a horrible, horrible thing. 499 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 1: The Ottomans now they're probably completely defeated, they've lost another 500 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: four to six thousand, but they don't feel like they 501 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:13,240 Speaker 1: can just quit. They have to try something else, anything else, 502 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: So they ride towards Mdina pac Man's Tonsils. Mdina is 503 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: to say lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's 504 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: almost no one there. They have almost no cannon balls, 505 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,520 Speaker 1: so they take everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians. 506 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: They stand them on the walls and dress them up 507 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 1: like soldiers. And then they take the few cannon balls 508 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: they have and they shoot them at the Ottoman force 509 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 1: when the Ottomans are out of range. Why they want 510 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: the Ottomans to think they're loaded with cannon balls. We 511 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 1: have as many. We have so many, we'll shoot them 512 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,239 Speaker 1: at you before you even get close enough. The Ottomans, 513 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 1: by now their spirit is broken. They get shot at 514 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 1: from out of range. They see all these air fingers 515 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: quote troops on top of m Dina, and they say, 516 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: screw this, we're leaving. They start marching back towards the 517 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,720 Speaker 1: other two teeth. I will wrap this up and it'll probably 518 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: take me five minutes, and then we'll get back to 519 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: politics in just a moment. But for all intents and purposes, 520 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: the siege of Malta is pretty much broken. It's mop 521 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: up time. Now. Before we mop up, let's do a 522 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: little bit of good. Let's not forget about the widows 523 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,320 Speaker 1: and orphans we just had. I am sure you saw 524 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: another cop ambushed, ambushed in a courthouse. Leave. It's terrible. 525 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: Who cares for these families? When cops die in the 526 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: line of duty, When firefighters die in the line of duty. 527 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: How how do you even pick it up and move on? 528 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 1: Tunnel to Towers has been standing alongside these families for 529 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: over two decades. Remember remember they built them an entire 530 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: community in Florida so they could live together. They're paying 531 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,719 Speaker 1: off mortgages for them. Real genuine care of widows and 532 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: orphans as we are commanded to do. Eleven bucks a 533 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 1: month from you is all they've ever asked for. Donate 534 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: to Tunnel the Towers give it automatically. You never know 535 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 1: it's gone. Tthnumber two, T dot org T two t 536 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,279 Speaker 1: dot org. We'll be back