WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.040 Day is The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.839 Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. As we set 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.240 aside politics for this hour and we go ahead and 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.320 step back into history, we get ready to do the 5 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:20.359 Siege of Malta Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it 6 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.280 the final part of the Siege of Malta. And then 7 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.879 final hour we're gonna have Selena Zita and we'll do 8 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.640 emails and we'll talk about commies and filtrating your business 9 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.759 and all kinds of other things. And I wanted to 10 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:38.119 remind you tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Thursday, because I 11 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.640 am out on Friday, so you got to email your 12 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:46.159 questions in to Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Now, the 13 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:49.359 thirty second recap you're going to get from last night 14 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.200 is the Nights of Saint John. They're given a horrible 15 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:00.880 windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin 16 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.640 fortifying it. There are four locations on it. They're fortifying 17 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.560 the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing, they are 18 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:13.760 taking over things they've taken Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic Europe 19 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:19.799 is petrified of the coming Muslim storm, and the Ottomans, 20 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.000 having let the Knights of Saint John go once before, 21 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:28.000 have had enough of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean, 22 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:33.400 and they land a thirty thousand man force on Malta 23 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:39.920 and they began to assault Fort number one. It's called 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:46.560 Fort Saint Elmo. Now, in this Fort Saint Elmo, there's 25 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:52.400 roughly a thousand men. They are not all knights, trained 26 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.920 born in bred warriors at all. There are some knights, 27 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.879 there are some other soldiers, so they're not all completely 28 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.640 you know, untrained. And then there are civilians inside of 29 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.879 the Fort Saint Elmo. Now let's talk about the Ottoman forces. 30 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.639 They have canons, obviously, so that both sides have cannons. 31 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.000 This is the era of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans 32 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.479 not only have cannons, they have a bunch of regular troops, 33 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.479 and they also have elite troops. Now think about them 34 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:34.199 like this is their special forces types. They're called janissaries. 35 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.199 If you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will 36 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.560 know for a very long time they have had tip 37 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.479 of the speared troops called janissaries. Now I want to 38 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.000 pause for a second because This will apply to way 39 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.599 more than this story. This applies to any military engagement 40 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:58.599 you ever read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers, 41 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.000 We obsess our numbers. They have so many thousand here, 42 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.360 and he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand, 43 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.000 and they have one hundred thousand, and they have the 44 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:12.400 the But all troops are not the same, not at all. 45 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:19.560 There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience 46 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:26.120 and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and 47 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.840 only seven hundred knights on the island does not mean 48 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:37.199 there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans who are 49 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.919 lions on the battlefield. It does not mean that at all. 50 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:52.159 The janissaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, highly highly experienced, 51 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:57.479 and there's not that many of them because you can't 52 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.719 make that many of them here. The numbers I read 53 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.199 differed wildly. A lot of people say there are in 54 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.800 total about six thousand of the thirty thousand ottomans where janisaries. 55 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.599 That number doesn't matter. These little details are not important. 56 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.000 Just know there are only so many of them, and 57 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.920 then when they're gone, when they're dead, you're back to 58 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.319 fairly pedestrian, regular troops. And on the other side as well. 59 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.680 You know, we said there are seven hundred knights, some 60 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.120 people say five hundred. Again, details don't matter, but there 61 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.839 are other regular troops, some not many, but some. But 62 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:41.240 they're not knights. They're not guys who live and die 63 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.079 for this Now Fort Saint Elmo. I used pac Man 64 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.920 as an example last night to try to explain the 65 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.279 geography of what you're looking at here. And in pac 66 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.759 Man's mouth obviously is water. It's a great harbor. But 67 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:02.920 pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. It is not 68 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:07.639 some impregnable fortress. The Knights did know they were coming, 69 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.480 and they did build up the fortifications, but it is 70 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.759 not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they get their cannons down, 71 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.040 and as I pointed out last night, they began to 72 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.319 dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are not built in 73 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.680 a straight line. Remember, you have to zig zag in 74 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.120 order to give your troops cover as they inch their 75 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:37.399 way towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this is a rocky, 76 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.240 miserable island, and right now it's hot. This island is 77 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:46.279 south of Sicily. We're in the month of July. It's hot. 78 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.519 Here's the un sexy part of so many battles, so 79 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.720 many battles. Water you have to have it. This is 80 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:02.079 hard work. Think about the daily life of the Ottoman 81 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.759 soldier or slave. They had many, many slaves. As I 82 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.319 pointed out, you are chipping and chopping away at rock. 83 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.279 You need food and you need water. Even if you 84 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.680 don't care about the lives of your slaves, and that's 85 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.439 oftentimes how slaves are treated. You still don't want them 86 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.839 to die. You need them digging. You have to feed them, 87 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:30.040 You have to give them water. And it's an island 88 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:34.600 surrounded by salt water, and there's not much water on 89 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.759 the island. And guess what else I didn't tell you 90 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.680 this last night. There are sources of fresh water on 91 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.439 the island wells. Do you know what the knights did? 92 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.920 What da Volette, he's the leader of the knights. Do 93 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.360 you know what he did before the Ottomans got there. 94 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.160 He took dead animals and dropped them into all the 95 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:59.839 freshwater sources that were outside of the fort. Obviously, as 96 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.160 you you've just figured out now that water is rotten. 97 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.600 Your men can't touch it, or your men will get 98 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.800 sick and die. It is a race against time. Every 99 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:17.920 single siege always is a race against time for both sides. 100 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.120 The people inside only have so much water, only have 101 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.240 so much ammo, only have so much food. That people 102 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.680 outside only have so much water, only have so much ammo, 103 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:33.519 only have so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away 104 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.000 and chipping away with these trenches, inching closer and closer 105 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:42.639 and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not 106 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.480 always static things. This is a talk we have about 107 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:49.240 politics all the time. You can't just hide behind your walls. 108 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.759 If they're pounding on your walls, or almost ready to 109 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.680 start pounding on your walls, you are going to have 110 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.439 to sally forth. You are going to have to leave 111 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.399 your walls and try to fight them off, keep them 112 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.319 off of the walls. And they are doing this, they're 113 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:09.240 riding out from Saint Elmo when they can, usually at night. 114 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.639 They're trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're attacking the 115 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.680 trenches as you can imagine. So you have those trench workers, 116 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.600 think what terrible luck this would be. You get stuck 117 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.439 on trench duty. You're hot, you're thirsty, you're tired, your 118 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.759 back hurts. You're chopping away at rock all day and 119 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.720 you look up in time to see a night riding 120 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:34.120 down on you, shoving a sword into your face. It 121 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.879 is up close, it is personal, and it is a 122 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.399 war of hatred. But the lines continue to get closer 123 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.159 and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now the cannons have 124 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.039 gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. They start knocking 125 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:57.000 the walls down. But here's the problem. They're hitting the 126 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:00.320 top of the walls, and they are knocking the mid 127 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.120 to top of the walls down. But you can't send 128 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.399 your troops over. If it's just the top of the 129 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.200 walls down. You are going to have to send troops 130 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:14.639 into the walls. You've got to attack the foundation. Now 131 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:19.559 along comes one of the real, allegedly great leaders of 132 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.480 the Ottomans. Dragot is his name to worry about, remembering 133 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.960 that his nickname stands for tell me how cool this 134 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:30.639 is the drawn sword of Islam. That's kind of cool, right, 135 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.240 you gotta be honest, that's kind of cool. And I 136 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.240 know no one's rooting for the Ottomans right now, but 137 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.879 that's kind of a cool nickname. Dragot notices the cannons 138 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.759 are not firing right. He's a hands on type. You 139 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.399 don't earn the nickname drawn sort of Islam because you 140 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.519 sit on your hands. And so he charges up to 141 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.480 the Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, lower the cannons. 142 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.159 We have to hit the foundation. We have to hit 143 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:58.360 the bottom of the walls to drop it. Good for Dragot, 144 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.960 But there is a reason many militaries don't send their 145 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:08.440 commanders out like this. Drawoot catches a bullet in the back. 146 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:13.840 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Wednesday, 147 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.519 Oh hopday. If you missed any part of the show, 148 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:21.279 you can download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. Ask doctor Jesse 149 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.840 Thursday tomorrow. I'll get your questions emailed into Jesse at 150 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.480 Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans are inching closer 151 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.960 to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right, and I already 152 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.120 mentioned his mouth is full of water. It's the great harbor. 153 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.120 And I told you last night that you need to 154 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.279 picture two teeth coming out the bottom part of his 155 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:47.840 jaw towards the back of his jaw. Those are peninsulas 156 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.519 controlled by the Knights. Fourti fied peninsulas The reason I 157 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.320 bring this up is this. Maybe you've been wondering, if 158 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:59.120 you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships, ships with 159 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.559 cannons and things like that on them, why don't you 160 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:07.840 just sail the ships into the Great Harbor and start 161 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:13.279 shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well, 162 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.759 remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth, 163 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:23.480 which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You 164 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.360 can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and 165 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:31.159 start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two 166 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.879 teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships. 167 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.799 Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and 168 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:44.480 you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind, 169 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:49.480 the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long 170 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.679 way from home. They are currently south of what is 171 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.720 now Sicily. They have to when this is over, get 172 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.360 all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's 173 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.480 a long sail and you need boats. So they have 174 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:09.240 to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now 175 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:14.799 they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they 176 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.200 finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo. 177 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.279 They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo, 178 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:28.480 big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact, 179 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.559 not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking 180 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.519 down outer walls, and they're bringing their cannons up and 181 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:40.759 now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls. 182 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.080 What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things. 183 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.120 They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in 184 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:54.960 the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand 185 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:01.240 sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside 186 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.320 of the gaps when they are not in the gaps 187 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.039 at night, I told you there were civilians inside of 188 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:15.120 Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians, they're grabbing mattresses, curtains, 189 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.600 whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap 190 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.000 that was just created for when the Ottomans come back 191 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:27.120 the next day and know this everybody by now everyone 192 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:31.120 in the fort, both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo 193 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.279 is going to fall at this point in time. The 194 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:41.039 Knights they send somebody across the harbor to dave Lette. 195 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.639 In fact, dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave 196 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.960 Lette send someone to them, the knights across the harbor, 197 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.200 and they say, hey, we can't hold this fort anymore. 198 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.919 Can we abland? Can we abandon it now? Can we 199 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.320 abandon it and come to the other Can we come 200 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.720 down to the tee? Can we come down to the 201 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:08.840 other fortifications. Dava Let tells them, no, you have to stay. 202 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.000 Why was he just a jerk? You may have been 203 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.720 a jerk, I don't know. But every day the Ottomans 204 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:22.480 were being occupied with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications 205 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.000 on the two teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, 206 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.519 bigger and stronger and better, and dava Let needed Fort 207 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:35.279 Saint Elmo to hold out as long as humanly possible. 208 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:43.279 He essentially ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, 209 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.399 and it's bad, and it's ugly, and people were dying 210 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.720 on both sides. Eventually Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This 211 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.679 was something the Ottomans needed to happen in a few days. 212 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:00.399 It took them a month to take what should have 213 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.879 been a few days. You're running out of food, you're 214 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:08.200 running out of water, and more importantly, remember those janissaries 215 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.559 I brought up the Ottoman elite troops. You took one 216 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:18.759 of the forts, and you lost half your janissaries. By 217 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.440 the time it's done, the Ottomans have lost roughly six 218 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.080 thousand of their men, and the Knights have lost about 219 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.399 a thousand out of about the three thousand they have. Yes, 220 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.399 they lost Fort Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was 221 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:42.600 unbelievably costly for the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, 222 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.360 but you can argue, as of this point right now, 223 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.799 the Ottomans have already lost the Siege of Malta. They 224 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.519 lost too many of their elite troops. They lost too 225 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:56.159 much time, too much food, too much water, too many 226 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.679 cannon balls. You should probably pack it up and head out. 227 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.919 That's not an option, as you can probably imagine, if 228 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.759 you're an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise 229 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.720 on back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent 230 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.159 that your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure 231 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:21.080 and you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's 232 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.559 a good way to find your head on a spike. 233 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.600 It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Wednesday. 234 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.440 Setting aside politics, Doc and some Moore Siege of Malta. 235 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.759 Now let's get right back into it. The Ottomans have 236 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.240 taken Fort Saint Elmo. Remember I told you in the 237 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:43.039 beginning there were four fortified locations on this island. Number 238 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:47.679 one is gone. Now they have to worry about the teeth. 239 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:50.840 I told you this island. You need to picture it 240 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.000 like pac Man. In the mouth is the Great Harbor, 241 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.759 and Pacman has two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. 242 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.159 These are eninsulas that jut out into the Great Harbor, 243 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.319 and they are fortified. There are civilians here, there are 244 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.519 the rest, essentially the rest of the Knights here. They 245 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:15.279 have been building fortifications and preparing for a long time 246 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.359 for these Ottomans to come. Remember I said before, if 247 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:23.400 you're the Ottomans, you can't just sail your boats right 248 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.920 into the harbor because the fortifications are going to blow 249 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.279 your boats out of the water. But if you're the Ottomans, 250 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.720 you understand your boats are a force multiplier. They can 251 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.519 carry troops, they have cannons on them. You need your 252 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.440 boats into the tonsils. Essentially, you need to get your 253 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.079 boats into the harbor. But you can't bring them in 254 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.599 through the mouth. What to do? What to do? Well, 255 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:50.079 this is something the Ottomans have done before history nerds 256 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:52.960 will know this. It's part of what they did at 257 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:58.279 the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans were they were wonderful engineers, 258 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.200 and they were really great at combat. They figured out 259 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:07.920 how to haul gigantic boats over the land. And they 260 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:14.319 do picture how unbelievably labor intensive it would be to 261 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.519 no construction and equipment. Right, there's no engine. They hauled 262 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:23.480 their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. They hauled it down 263 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:28.880 over pac Man's forehead and landed their boats back into 264 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.519 pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. Now they have 265 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.559 their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over to the teeth. 266 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.839 I told you the teeth are jutting out the bottom 267 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.400 of pac Man's job. These are the two bottom peninsula fortifications. 268 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:50.200 The Ottomans bring their cannons and their troops over land 269 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:55.119 and they start doing the same thing to these peninsulas 270 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.759 they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, digging in trenches, 271 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:06.480 cannons and they start bombarding the place. The Ottomans, now 272 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.240 I'm not going to say desperate at all. But they're 273 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:12.759 looking at the clock, and this is going to be 274 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.799 important for our purposes here. It's not just food and 275 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:20.880 water that's presenting problems for them. Back in the day. 276 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:24.640 We don't think about this as much now, but seed travel. 277 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:27.839 Back in the day, the day of sail, the day 278 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.599 of the ore was very, very seasonal. When the weather 279 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:37.720 got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, when 280 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:42.720 winter came, the winds were not right, the waves were 281 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:47.319 not right. You couldn't just hop on the water anytime 282 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:50.079 you wanted to hop on the water and just go 283 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:54.519 sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah, 284 00:19:54.640 --> 00:20:01.319 the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall. 285 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:05.039 Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances 286 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:09.480 they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in 287 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:14.000 and they decide they're going to try something. The troops 288 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:17.359 that are underneath the teeth, they're going to try to 289 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.119 throw them at the walls while at the same time 290 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:28.200 doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing 291 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.720 using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the 292 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.960 back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well. 293 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:42.559 Things would have been going well, but there was something 294 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:49.319 they didn't quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like 295 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:53.319 I said, they had been making preparations. Part of those 296 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:59.640 preparations were they had been putting up underwater spikes and 297 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:05.599 in anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming 298 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.000 to do exactly what they were going to do. The 299 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.079 boats can't get all the way to the beach. They 300 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.200 stall out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops 301 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:21.480 and they're wading in under fire, and they're dying in droves. 302 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:25.039 They're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly, 303 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:26.759 I just they need to make a movie about this. 304 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.880 I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's 305 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:34.119 making a miniseries about this. They are dying well. Now 306 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:38.039 the Ottomans try to press the issue and they decide 307 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:41.920 they're going to try to sail their boats around the 308 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.079 back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and 309 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.680 they're thinking, well, their cannons aren't going to get to us. 310 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:53.160 The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at 311 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.720 sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start 312 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:04.200 to sail the ships around the tooth and lo and 313 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:09.240 behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a 314 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:13.039 like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a 315 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:20.039 hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right 316 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:24.559 out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for 317 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:28.680 the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops 318 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:32.000 on the ships are going down with them, and your 319 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:38.200 forces are being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, 320 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:41.759 now I know you're thinking, aw all is gravy? Looks 321 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.519 like the Knights have it. Not at all. This has 322 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.559 been a tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. 323 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:51.720 But remember the Knights only have so much food too, 324 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.160 only have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles 325 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.440 for their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes, 326 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:02.799 they had tried to provision themselves, and they had done 327 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.680 very well, but they are in a real pickle. And 328 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:13.440 those Ottoman cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls 329 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:17.400 are dropping. They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. 330 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.599 And if the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. 331 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:28.519 The Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls, and 332 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:34.880 now they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, 333 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:39.039 the Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't 334 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:43.440 figure out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their 335 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:48.279 walls until it's almost too late. But they eventually do 336 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.079 figure it out. What do they do. There's really only 337 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.240 one thing you can do in that situation. You have 338 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:58.079 to dig down inside of your city. Remember this is 339 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:01.799 all by hand, and you have to dig a counter 340 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:08.680 tunnel looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. 341 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:17.319 They find them. They meet under the walls of the 342 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:25.480 Knights in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, 343 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:30.720 and they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. 344 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:34.359 In the pitch. Black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right, 345 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:39.359 A nasty hand to hand combat war takes place in 346 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:45.599 the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they 347 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:50.319 carve the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they 348 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:56.480 have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now, 349 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:02.839 many people, many people to this. They believe that God 350 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:08.079 stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the Knights. 351 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:14.160 Maybe you are skeptical that maybe you believe that what 352 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:19.240 happens next is one of the main justifications people will 353 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:24.519 use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, He 354 00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:28.720 saved them. I'll tell you what happens next. It is 355 00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:33.160 the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember tomorrow is ask Doctor Jesse Friday. 356 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:35.759 You need to get your questions emailed or asked Doctor 357 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:38.559 Jesse Thursday. You need to get your questions emailed in 358 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:43.160 now the Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. The Ottomans 359 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.920 are trying to attack from the sea and the land. 360 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.960 Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so I'm worried. 361 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.799 I haven't been clear on that. It is mainly a 362 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.839 land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. That's 363 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.759 where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches are coming. 364 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:02.039 They're just trying to mix in as much of the 365 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:05.759 ocean as they can while they have the boats. And 366 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:08.680 the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say the 367 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:12.039 knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls are crumbling. 368 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.920 They're running out of men, they're running out of food, 369 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.359 they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly outnumbered. Still, 370 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.599 even though they've killed legions of these Ottomans, and the 371 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:29.160 Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans can taste victory. 372 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.119 Pause on that member. I told you there were four locations, 373 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:40.079 pac Man's nose, pac Man's two teeth, and then Mdina 374 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.039 pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, but you 375 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:48.799 get what I'm saying. It's inland a little bit Indina. Well, 376 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:53.000 Indina is aware they have a very very tiny force there, 377 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:57.079 a tiny force there. Indina is aware that the two 378 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:00.640 Teeth are in dire straits and if those fortificationations fall, 379 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.799 it's over. The island will be taken. It's over. So 380 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:11.680 they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit. Not a 381 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.799 big unit, not a massive force. They're just going out 382 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.880 to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces, what's the 383 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.400 camp look like. Let's try to get word to this 384 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.400 or that. Before I get to any of that, I 385 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.559 do have to clarify how much hatred there is between 386 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.279 these sides, because this part is important. Remember I told 387 00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:38.599 you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told you 388 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:43.519 that earlier, many many years earlier, when Rhodes fell. Suliman 389 00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:47.319 the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he was 390 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:50.960 angry that they were now fighting him when Fort Saint 391 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:57.240 Elmo fell. But the Ottomans took the few knights who 392 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:05.240 were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they disembowed them, 393 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:12.799 desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, they 394 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:19.319 nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, and 395 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:23.799 then they floated them across the water back to the 396 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:30.279 other forts. This is this is a military orders. What's 397 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:34.160 that feel like if you're standing on the fort and 398 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:38.960 you see the headless, gutless corpse of your friend with 399 00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:44.839 a little religious insult on top of it, floating at you. Yeah, 400 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:49.480 the Knights didn't take it well? How not well did 401 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:53.440