WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.360 It is The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:08.919 Jesse Kelly Show. On an amazing Tuesday. We had a 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.599 rip roar in first hour. If you missed any of that, 4 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.599 including the Crappiest Country in the World Championship, you gotta 5 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:18.039 go download the podcast. iHeart Spotify iTunes. We don't have 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.239 any time for anymore of that right now. In fact, 7 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:22.879 we don't even have any time for politics. Now. I 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.719 should remember I have to keep this in mind. This 9 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:32.359 is something that's easy to forget. Not everybody has been 10 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.399 listening for the seven years we've been on the air. 11 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:39.280 In fact, most have not. People come along relatively recently. 12 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.320 So I need to explain something about me before I 13 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:49.719 derail the show. I love history, to be honest with you. 14 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:55.679 It's my favorite thing in the world. I love it. 15 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.439 It is what I do in my spare time. I 16 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:02.039 read history books. I gobble up all the history information 17 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.480 I can. You want to hear the biggest old Man 18 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:08.519 Jesse thing in the world. I love museums. I'm don't 19 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:13.760 roll your eyes, Chris, I'm a museum guy. And occasionally 20 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.319 on The Jesse Kelly Show, I try to do it 21 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:20.680 every three or four weeks I would say, we take 22 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:25.920 time and I tell a history story about some sort 23 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:32.719 of historical event, battle, expedition of some kind, whatever happens 24 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.079 to interest me. And yeah, we take requests for them 25 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:39.200 and things like that. But I love it. I enjoy it. 26 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.319 If we if you and me, if we could right 27 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:44.760 all the wrongs in this country, get rid of all 28 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.799 these dirty comies, I'd probably do history every single day. 29 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:51.319 That's how much. That's how much I genuinely enjoy it. 30 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.599 I'd quit and go just start a history podcast. But 31 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.840 we got work to do now. Again. This is just 32 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.719 in case you are new. I do not always fit 33 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.239 it all in one show. This show is three hours long. 34 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.039 It depends on the history tale. I've had these things 35 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.719 stretch out three or four days. I'm just gonna go 36 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.800 in and tell you right now, the chances I'm able 37 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.919 to finish this entire thing tonight are It's almost zero. 38 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.400 It's probably zero. We'll come back and do some more 39 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.719 politics next hour. There's just so much background I want 40 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.840 to go into, and then the siege itself. It's a 41 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.639 little more complicated than some other things we've done. I 42 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.319 have a lot a lot of reasons, but it's gonna 43 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.159 take a little bit and I'm gonna talk history. If 44 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:42.400 you don't like it, change the channel. I'll see you 45 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:47.960 next hour or tomorrow. I love it. Now, I want 46 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:54.599 you to imagine something. I want you to imagine that 47 00:02:54.759 --> 00:03:01.719 you are manning a cannon and obviously you are firing 48 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:06.080 cannon balls at the other side, and the other side 49 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:12.080 is firing cannon balls back at you. Not an ideal situation, 50 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:18.800 obviously a little bit frightening. Only you see their cannons 51 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:24.680 go off one day and you're thinking, uh, oh, I 52 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.240 better take cover. There's a cannonball come in my way. 53 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:36.199 Only after you duck down, you hear the cannon ball 54 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.159 land and it doesn't sound like the other cannon balls 55 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:44.479 at all. In fact, it made a kind of funny splat. 56 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.120 So you poke your head up to see what the 57 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:54.639 problem is, and you find out they didn't fire a 58 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:59.800 cannon ball this time. They fired your best friend's head 59 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:04.479 at you. We are about to talk about one of 60 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:12.080 the nastiest sieges and most important sieges in human history. Honestly, 61 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:17.000 you can say this siege probably affects the world we 62 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.879 live in today, and the world we live in today 63 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:25.279 possibly would have been radically different. What time period are 64 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.360 we in now? The Siege of Malta is in the 65 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.319 fifteen hundreds, and I'm about to give a bunch of 66 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.800 background on the two different sides. So just hang with 67 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.920 me for a moment. But it's important to understand just 68 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:40.120 some basics about the technology and the world we live 69 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.240 in in the fifteen hundreds, right, So this is post 70 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.480 Christopher Columbus. You got that fourteen ninety two and all that. 71 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.120 This is the era where there still have sailing ships. 72 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:54.959 Ships still have sales in them. So there's no engines 73 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.040 and things like that. But it's not all bows and 74 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:05.959 arrows and sores words. However, there are crossbows, bows and 75 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.800 arrows and swords and they are employed a lot on 76 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.319 the battlefield. There are cannons, As I just pointed out, 77 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.600 each every major country will have cannons at their disposal, 78 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.759 and they have i'm gonna call them guns muskets, you know, 79 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:31.199 old single shot things that they are the most basic 80 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:38.279 thing you have ever seen, gigantic, heavy, cumbersome, not very 81 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:42.240 accurate at all. We're look, you're not going to square 82 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.000 up against a guy who's two hundred yards away and 83 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.000 have a snowballs chance, and you know where of hitting 84 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:52.720 him with these things. So yes, gunpowder and shot and 85 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.079 those things they do matter. It is important. But I 86 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:00.959 wanted you to understand we're still talking swords here, okay, lords, cannons, 87 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:06.360 old old guns. Now, before we get to Malta, I'm 88 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:11.800 going to talk about two different sides Jerusalem. We're gonna 89 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:15.360 go way, way, way, way way back. This is about 90 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.399 the year one thousand, and in fact, very close to 91 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:26.199 being exactly a thousand years ago. Jerusalem. You are well 92 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:31.519 aware Jerusalem is considered a holy land for the three 93 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:37.279 largest religions on the planet, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. That 94 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.560 is the case today. If you go to Jerusalem today, 95 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.959 you will see all three represented there. And it was 96 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.120 very much the case back in this era. And the 97 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.199 Muslims and the Christians both have laid claim to it. 98 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:59.079 They want it to be theirs, and they're fighting over it. 99 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.079 This is the era of what is known as the Crusades. 100 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.759 I'm not going to do a bunch of Crusades history. 101 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.199 But you've heard of a pilgrimage, right you at least 102 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:16.040 understand what a pilgrimage is. Christians at this time will 103 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.079 make pilgrimages and the same way you would do today. 104 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:20.920 I guess you could argue what we did as a 105 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.720 show a couple of years ago was a pilgrimage. You 106 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.680 are going to visit the holy sites of what you believe. 107 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:34.560 Muslims make pilgrimages there as well. Christians would make pilgrimages 108 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:39.240 to Jerusalem. While there, and remember there's all kinds of 109 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:45.000 fighting going on and ugly things. An order has been started. 110 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.079 What is an order exactly? I want you to think 111 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:50.720 of the Knights of Columbus. You've heard of the Knights 112 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.360 of Columbus. My father in law is a member of 113 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:58.000 the Knights of Columbus. What do they do well. They 114 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.879 serve the community in various ways. They'll give back, they 115 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:08.399 do fish fries. It's an order. Orders were a little 116 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.120 different back then. Now they did a lot of that 117 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.519 as well. But they could be they could be orders 118 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:17.879 of service, they could be military orders. An order begins 119 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:23.199 in Jerusalem in the year one thousand and It is 120 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:28.959 known as the Knights of Saint John, or the Knights 121 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:33.480 Hospitaller or the Knights Hospitaler, depending on how you want 122 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.159 to pronounce it. I'm going to tell you right now, 123 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.759 I picked the one that I thought was the coolest sounding, 124 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.639 and so it's the what I'm sticking with. The Knights 125 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.480 of Saint John is the one I'm sticking with. But knights, 126 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.320 hospital or hospitalery is a very very common way. It's 127 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:52.279 an order. It was not a military order. When it began. 128 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.519 You know the name hospitaler, hospital er, depending on your accent. 129 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.759 It was a hospital. They started a hospital in Jerusalem. 130 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:07.000 They did not only treat Christians or Jews or Muslims. 131 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:12.639 All were welcome. They started a hospital there. Hospitals. We 132 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.960 are used to hospitals being everywhere today, even if you're 133 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.200 in a rural area, there are hospitals twenty thirty minutes 134 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.320 from you. If you're in an urban area, you're probably 135 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.360 ten minutes from a hospital. That is not the case 136 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.039 in the ancient world. They started a hospital to care 137 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.960 for the sick. But like I said, this was an 138 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:35.759 era where there was quite a bit of com It 139 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.279 still is, but there was quite a bit of controversy 140 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:43.120 over this chunk of ground. Wholly to the Muslims, holy 141 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.000 to the Christians. The Jews are not gonna they're not 142 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:47.559 going to play a major role in our story here. 143 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.679 So we're gonna set them aside right now. And they 144 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:51.759 were fighting over it, the Christians and the Muslims were 145 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:56.240 fighting over it. And if you were a Christian making 146 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:02.399 a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, remember flying in on United you 147 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:06.399 have to walk, ride a horse, ride a camel, and 148 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.000 it was a dangerous affair. We'll continue in a moment. 149 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:14.759 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Tuesday, 150 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.519 doing some history right now on the Siege of Malta. 151 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.759 If you're just joining us, don't worry. You just missed 152 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:23.840 a touch of background on one of our two sides. 153 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.600 The Knights of Saint John or Nice Knights Hospitaller. They 154 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:32.080 start a hospital in Jerusalem around the year one thousand. 155 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:37.159 But Christians making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem at this time 156 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.600 they kept getting attacked, attacked by robbers, attacked by Muslims. 157 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.639 It was a problem. So the Knights and I should 158 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.000 pause real quick. Jewish producer Chris said something during the 159 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.559 break about the Knights Templar. There's a very famous this 160 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:55.080 is not them, this is not them. It's a no. 161 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.519 I wasn't insulting you, Chris, but a lot of people 162 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.200 would think are these the same nights. The Knights of 163 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:04.600 Saint John were a Catholic order very similar to the 164 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.960 Knights Templar. These are not them. This is a separate group, 165 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.960 all right. So they expand and they go from being 166 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:17.120 just a hospital just giving medical care to a military order. 167 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.799 Now they are a strict military order. They are funded 168 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:25.720 by various sources, and they are well trained, very very 169 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:32.440 good fighters. Eventually, during those crusades, the Muslims are led 170 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.279 by a man named Saladin. If you are ever, if 171 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:40.879 you are a history buffet, all know anything about the crusade, 172 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.480 you will have heard of the name Saladein. Saladein was 173 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:48.840 a famous Muslim general, very very talented, and he won. 174 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:53.240 It became his And after he won, he took this 175 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:57.279 military order of knights and he kicked them out. He 176 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:01.919 kicked them out to a place called roads. Now we're 177 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.080 going to pause for just a moment. The Knights of 178 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.919 Saint John are on a place called Roads. In case 179 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.360 you're wondering where this is. This is important for our story. 180 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:12.960 Like I said, there's going to be a lot more 181 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.879 background in location here to try to explain who's who 182 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.039 and what's what and where we are and I know 183 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.240 you're listening, not looking at it. So the Mediterranean, you 184 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.799 know about the Mediterranean, you're at least aware of it. 185 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.360 That's where Greece and Italy and all that. The southern France, 186 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:32.919 Southern Spain, that's where all those things are. But Italy, 187 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:40.080 Southern Spain, Southern France, that is the Western Mediterranean. The 188 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:46.120 Eastern Mediterranean is Greece, and this is where Turkey is located, 189 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.759 all right, So that's the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has 190 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:55.759 always since boats have gotten onto the water, the Mediterranean 191 00:12:55.879 --> 00:13:01.679 has been prized choice territory. You want the Mediterranean to 192 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.720 ship goods and men, and you want to be able 193 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:08.559 to ship things to and fro. The Mediterranean is prime 194 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.120 real estate, and it is still prime real estate to 195 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:13.679 this day. You want to be able to own the waves, 196 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:15.799 own the shores on those waves. By the way, I 197 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.000 should note northern Africa. This is all part of the Mediterranean. 198 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.559 Now that brings us to the Ottoman Empire. I'm not 199 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.840 going to go into the whole background on the Ottoman Empire. 200 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.519 We've done a bit of them before, and we'll probably 201 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:30.519 do a bit of them again because they're a fascinating, 202 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:35.120 powerful empire. They rose up and they began to conquer 203 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:40.320 the world around them. Very very powerful, very very smart, 204 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:46.279 science heavy, really sharp empire that was run in a 205 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:52.240 really sharp way. And they're Muslim. What was Europe? Europe 206 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:57.480 was Catholic slash Christian. Honestly during the era we're in, 207 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.960 that's when Protestantism and the Catholics were starting to kill 208 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.279 each other. We're not going to go in any of that. 209 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.200 I'm going to dumb this down and just say Europe 210 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:10.919 was Catholic at this time. Okay, Europe's Catholic, Europe's Christian 211 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:16.399 or whatever. The Ottomans are Muslim. That may mean nothing 212 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.679 to you, maybe you have no belief system or whatever, 213 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.440 but that is not at all important to our story. 214 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.360 What is important to our story is it meant everything 215 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.840 to both sides. For the Ottomans as they rose up 216 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.240 and they began to conquer really the Muslim world. They 217 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.159 were conquering much of the Muslim world, pulling them under 218 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:43.320 the Ottoman umbrella. They were selling themselves and viewed themselves 219 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.320 as we are the protectors of Islam. We are the 220 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.919 ones who will spread Islam, we will protect the people 221 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:54.200 of Islam. And for a very very, very long time. 222 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.840 The Ottomans saw themselves that way, and many people in 223 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:01.320 the Islamic world saw themselves that way. Now, as the 224 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:07.240 Ottoman Empire, this Islamic Empire was rising, Christian Europe, Catholic 225 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.320 Europe was afraid, and understandably so. It wasn't an ungrounded fear. 226 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.399 The Ottoman Empire was spreading and conquering and spreading and conquering. 227 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.399 And there was an event which we've done before. I'm 228 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.919 not going to go into it, the Byzantine Empire or 229 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.559 the Eastern Roman Empire, depending they would have called themselves Roman. 230 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.600 They had Constantinople. It was really the center of Christianity 231 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.879 at the time, and in the fourteen hundreds, the Ottoman 232 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:42.799 Empire took the center of Christianity at this time. Whatever 233 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:46.080 your belief system is, I want you to picture what 234 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.759 you consider to be maybe your most holy or cherished place. 235 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:55.960 Imagine it falling to what you consider to be your 236 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:03.679 religious mortal enemy. The fall of constant Antinople rocked and 237 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.039 brought a whole lot of fear into Christian Europe. These Muslims, 238 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.679 are they gonna come kill us all? Are they gonna? 239 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.000 Are they gonna come bring Islam and force it into 240 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.559 all of Europe. They're so powerful, how do we stop them? 241 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.519 So this happened in the fourteen hundreds. Now something else 242 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.799 had happened then. Remember I said that the Knights of 243 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.759 Saint John were sent to Rhodes, and we'll get to 244 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.000 that in a moment. Jesse Calishow dot Com. We're doing 245 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.679 a little history on the siege of Malta and I 246 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:38.720 realize they're a bit a bit a thousand of them. 247 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.519 So we're talking about the one in fifteen sixty five. Okay, 248 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.720 just to spoil it, but we're not quite there yet. 249 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.480 The Knights of Saint John get kicked out of Jerusalem 250 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:50.080 when the Muslims conquer it, and they get sent to Rhodes. 251 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:54.840 But they don't just sit around on roads. They fortify roads. 252 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:57.559 Now here's the important part. I just talked about the 253 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.720 Ottoman Empire expanding and growing, spanning and growing. They are 254 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:08.279 in the Eastern Mediterranean at this time. Rhodes is over 255 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:14.519 there in Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean. They attack roads, 256 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:19.640 the Ottoman Empire does. The Knights of Saint John were 257 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.880 not chumps, as we will continue to find out. They 258 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:27.480 were hard as nails, and for them this was a 259 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:32.920 deeply religious conflict. They saw themselves as being the protectors 260 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.359 of Christenedom, the protectors of the Catholic Church, the protectors 261 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.440 of people who believe in Jesus. In the same way 262 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:40.920 the Autumn saw. Ottomans saw themselves as you know, the 263 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.880 sword of Islam, all those things they attacked roads. The 264 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:52.559 Knights fight so valiantly that the big cheese of the 265 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:58.559 Ottoman Empire says, hey, by the way, his name is Suliman. 266 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:00.279 I probably should go ahead and name him. I try 267 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.200 not to give you too many details and names, but 268 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:07.039 Suliman the Magnificent, I'm sure he nicknamed himself. Suliman the 269 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:12.200 Magnificent is so impressed by how valiant the Knights fight 270 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.880 he does not wipe them all out. When he defeats 271 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:20.440 them at Rhodes, he says, you know, you guys fought 272 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:25.720 like lions. I respect that, so you may go. He 273 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.240 grants them clemency and safe passage for their bravery. So 274 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.880 anyone he hadn't already killed, he says, you can go. Well, 275 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.119 now you have the Knights of Saint John, this religious order, 276 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.640 and they don't have a home, so they are given 277 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:47.240 a home by Christian Europe. Their home is a place 278 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:52.759 known as Malta. Where is Malta. Here's where it is. 279 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.079 You know, I told you there's an Eastern Mediterranean and 280 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.119 a Western Mediterranean. Don't worry if you don't have it memorized, 281 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.960 it's not important. There's an eastern half and there's a 282 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:06.079 western half. You know, Italy, that boot that comes down, 283 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.319 and then there's that huge island, Sicily that's right off 284 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.720 the toe of that boot. Right to the west of 285 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:21.480 that boot. Right below Sicily, there is a frankly, pretty desolate, 286 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.839 crappy piece of rock called Malta. So when the Knights 287 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.400 of Saint John were given Malta, you should understand a 288 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:35.200 couple things. This was not exactly a luxurious post. But 289 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:38.000 they were people without a home at this time, and 290 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:44.599 there were Maltese people on Malta who weren't necessarily given 291 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.599 a choice in this whole thing. The knights were given 292 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.559 this place, and the knights stepped in and they made 293 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.640 it their home. Now, I already told you the Ottomans 294 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.839 were expanding. They were coming. They were coming west towards Europe. 295 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:04.559 They were moving from the east to the west. They 296 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:08.880 were already taking over places like Hungary. Christian Europe is 297 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.880 not only divided in fighting itself, they are deathly afraid 298 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:18.960 of the Ottomans who are coming the Ottomans. The Ottomans 299 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000 as they seize more and more control of the Mediterranean, 300 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.759 they are taking over. I already told you how important 301 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:29.599 the Mediterranean is today and was in yesteryear. They are 302 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:34.599 taking over valuable sea lanes, and they're now getting stupid 303 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:39.519 wealthy shipping goods and services back and forth across the Mediterranean. 304 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:46.720 So you're a knight, you're in Malta. What do you do? Well, 305 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:50.680 you're on an island. You're there to protect Europe. The 306 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:55.480 Ottomans are the Muslims are your sworn enemy. You need 307 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.599 to build up the fortifications of the island and then 308 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:02.119 get your butt on a boat and you need to 309 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.640 go make life very very miserable for the Ottomans. And 310 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.519 they do. The Knights essentially, they kept calling them, They 311 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.319 call them corsairs. You've ever heard that term corsair? Corsair? 312 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.799 You know what a corsair is. It's a pirate's it's 313 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:20.880 a pirate. When you don't want to call somebody a pirate, 314 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.680 The Knights sail forth and they start creating nightmares for 315 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:34.119 the Ottomans, raiding ships, raiding goods, kidnapping people. They are stealing, 316 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:41.039 essentially stealing now, I already said Sulaiman, the magnificent big 317 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.079 Cheese of the Ottoman Empire. He had previously let the 318 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.599 Ottomans go, or let them sorry, he had previously let 319 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.519 the Knights of Saint John go. He had given them clemency. 320 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:57.680 He was displeased, to put it mildly, to find out 321 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:00.599 that the Knights of Saint John, who he had let go, 322 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:05.759 we're now raiding his ships and making his life miserable. 323 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.759 He thought that was completely out of line. And frankly, 324 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:12.519 he probably has a pretty good point, but that's not important. 325 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:18.599 What is important is this Suliman not only goes down 326 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.400 to Northern Africa and takes over the portion of Northern 327 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.720 Africa the Knights had. Word gets back to the knights. 328 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.319 You see, this is every era is an era of 329 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:34.400 intelligence gathering and spying. I already said. The Ottoman Empire 330 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:38.680 had taken over Constantinople, it's known today as Istanbul. They 331 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.319 had taken over Constantinople, that was the capital of the 332 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.519 Ottoman Empire. Word got back to the Knights on Malta 333 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:53.079 that Suliman the Magnificent was building a large fleet. The Knights. 334 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.559 It didn't exactly take a genius to figure out what 335 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:01.559 he was planning on doing with that fleet. They figured 336 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:04.960 out he was coming, and they knew it was going 337 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.559 to be large. They knew that he was going to 338 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:14.480 be coming to take Malta from them. So now I 339 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:16.680 have to do something, and I'm probably gonna have to 340 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:19.119 do this a couple of times, but I try to 341 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:21.880 make sure you can visualize what we're dealing with here, 342 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.559 and this is probably the most complicated thing I will 343 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:29.599 ever have you visualize. So I'm going to simplify it. Okay, 344 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:35.240 you know what pac Man looks like. Everybody knows what 345 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:37.640 pac Man looks like. He got it, pac Man. If 346 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:39.319 you don't know what pac Man looks like, I can't 347 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:43.000 help you. Okay, pac Man. I want you to picture 348 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.279 pac Man and his mouth is open to the right, 349 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.079 all right, His mouth is open to the right. For 350 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:54.319 simplicity purposes, this is going to be our Malta. Okay, 351 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.359 you have your pack pat Man, pac Man pictured in 352 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:04.680 your head. Now, pac Man on his lower jaw towards 353 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:09.480 the back of his lower jaw. He has two teeth. 354 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:13.359 They're close to each other. They're both coming out of 355 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:17.160 his lower jaw. He has two teeth. You with me. 356 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.119 There are four locations that are going to matter for 357 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:24.519 the siege of Malta. The siege of Malta is not 358 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:29.960 one gigantic fortress. It's a big, desolate, crappy island. It 359 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.599 is four locations. There is one. Don't worry about memorizing 360 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:37.960 all this. I'll keep covering it again. There's one on 361 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.680 pac Man's nose, up by where his nose would be. 362 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:46.000 This is going to be the site of a lot 363 00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:49.359 of nastiness. This is called the Fort of Saint Elmo. 364 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.079 Don't worry about memorizing the names the teeth down to 365 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.960 the teeth. The teeth have names, which we'll get to. 366 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:58.079 That's not important. I'll get to those in a little 367 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:04.799 bit now. The fourth location is his tonsils, way back 368 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:06.440 in the back of his mouth. And again I'm making 369 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.119 this very simple. M Dina is what it's called. So 370 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:15.359 you have his nose, two teeth, and his tonsils. That 371 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:21.839 those are the four locations of the four fortifications on Malta, 372 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.279 and the Ottomans are coming and there's a lot of 373 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:30.559 them and the Knights have to get ready. We'll continue 374 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.880 in a moment. It is the Jesse Kelly's Show on 375 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.519 a Fantastic Tuesday. Remember you can email the show Jesse 376 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:42.160 at Jesse kellyshow dot com. As we as we go 377 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.000 over the Siege of Malta. So that was a little 378 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.160 bit of the background. The Knights of Saint John are 379 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.319 digging in on Malta. They know the Ottoman Empire is 380 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.200 coming with the massive invasion fleet, and so they begin 381 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:01.319 to fortify the island. The four locations I already discussed 382 00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:04.839 just for your reference in case you're interested, it is 383 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:11.400 the Fort Saint Elmo, Seglia, Burgo and m Dina. Don't 384 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.200 worry about those four locations. Don't worry about the names. 385 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.119 Just know there are four locations. For now, we're going 386 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:20.519 to focus on a couple different things. How are they 387 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:24.319 planning on fighting this? What are the Ottomans bringing first? 388 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:29.000 The Knights of Saint John on Malta. They understand there's 389 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.279 very little chance for them to win without help. Now, 390 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.839 I already said Europe it was not a unified place then, 391 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.680 it's not a unified place now. But back then it 392 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:44.200 was really really not unified. The Knights were sending out 393 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:48.960 essentially help wanted letters. They were reaching out to the pope, 394 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.119 they were reaching out to kings. Hey I need troops, 395 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.480 I need help, I need boats that the Ottomans are coming, 396 00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:00.279 the Muslims are coming. Help, please send help. They are 397 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:05.759 not getting rejected. I should clarify. But everyone they're asking 398 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:10.680 for help from, they're most definitely dragging their feet. Oh hey, 399 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:13.759 you need some help. Yeah, well, you know, I got 400 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:16.400 to move some things around. We'll get on that at 401 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:18.680