Speaker 1: Day is The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. As we set
Speaker 1: aside politics for this hour and we go ahead and
Speaker 1: step back into history, we get ready to do the
Speaker 1: Siege of Malta Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it
Speaker 1: the final part of the Siege of Malta. And then
Speaker 1: final hour we're gonna have Selena Zita and we'll do
Speaker 1: emails and we'll talk about commies and filtrating your business
Speaker 1: and all kinds of other things. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: remind you tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Thursday, because I
Speaker 1: am out on Friday, so you got to email your
Speaker 1: questions in to Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Now, the
Speaker 1: thirty second recap you're going to get from last night
Speaker 1: is the Nights of Saint John. They're given a horrible
Speaker 1: windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin
Speaker 1: fortifying it. There are four locations on it. They're fortifying
Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing, they are
Speaker 1: taking over things they've taken Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic Europe
Speaker 1: is petrified of the coming Muslim storm, and the Ottomans,
Speaker 1: having let the Knights of Saint John go once before,
Speaker 1: have had enough of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean,
Speaker 1: and they land a thirty thousand man force on Malta
Speaker 1: and they began to assault Fort number one. It's called
Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo. Now, in this Fort Saint Elmo, there's
Speaker 1: roughly a thousand men. They are not all knights, trained
Speaker 1: born in bred warriors at all. There are some knights,
Speaker 1: there are some other soldiers, so they're not all completely
Speaker 1: you know, untrained. And then there are civilians inside of
Speaker 1: the Fort Saint Elmo. Now let's talk about the Ottoman forces.
Speaker 1: They have canons, obviously, so that both sides have cannons.
Speaker 1: This is the era of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans
Speaker 1: not only have cannons, they have a bunch of regular troops,
Speaker 1: and they also have elite troops. Now think about them
Speaker 1: like this is their special forces types. They're called janissaries.
Speaker 1: If you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will
Speaker 1: know for a very long time they have had tip
Speaker 1: of the speared troops called janissaries. Now I want to
Speaker 1: pause for a second because This will apply to way
Speaker 1: more than this story. This applies to any military engagement
Speaker 1: you ever read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers,
Speaker 1: We obsess our numbers. They have so many thousand here,
Speaker 1: and he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: and they have one hundred thousand, and they have the
Speaker 1: the But all troops are not the same, not at all.
Speaker 1: There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience
Speaker 1: and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and
Speaker 1: only seven hundred knights on the island does not mean
Speaker 1: there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans who are
Speaker 1: lions on the battlefield. It does not mean that at all.
Speaker 1: The janissaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, highly highly experienced,
Speaker 1: and there's not that many of them because you can't
Speaker 1: make that many of them here. The numbers I read
Speaker 1: differed wildly. A lot of people say there are in
Speaker 1: total about six thousand of the thirty thousand ottomans where janisaries.
Speaker 1: That number doesn't matter. These little details are not important.
Speaker 1: Just know there are only so many of them, and
Speaker 1: then when they're gone, when they're dead, you're back to
Speaker 1: fairly pedestrian, regular troops. And on the other side as well.
Speaker 1: You know, we said there are seven hundred knights, some
Speaker 1: people say five hundred. Again, details don't matter, but there
Speaker 1: are other regular troops, some not many, but some. But
Speaker 1: they're not knights. They're not guys who live and die
Speaker 1: for this Now Fort Saint Elmo. I used pac Man
Speaker 1: as an example last night to try to explain the
Speaker 1: geography of what you're looking at here. And in pac
Speaker 1: Man's mouth obviously is water. It's a great harbor. But
Speaker 1: pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. It is not
Speaker 1: some impregnable fortress. The Knights did know they were coming,
Speaker 1: and they did build up the fortifications, but it is
Speaker 1: not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they get their cannons down,
Speaker 1: and as I pointed out last night, they began to
Speaker 1: dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are not built in
Speaker 1: a straight line. Remember, you have to zig zag in
Speaker 1: order to give your troops cover as they inch their
Speaker 1: way towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this is a rocky,
Speaker 1: miserable island, and right now it's hot. This island is
Speaker 1: south of Sicily. We're in the month of July. It's hot.
Speaker 1: Here's the un sexy part of so many battles, so
Speaker 1: many battles. Water you have to have it. This is
Speaker 1: hard work. Think about the daily life of the Ottoman
Speaker 1: soldier or slave. They had many, many slaves. As I
Speaker 1: pointed out, you are chipping and chopping away at rock.
Speaker 1: You need food and you need water. Even if you
Speaker 1: don't care about the lives of your slaves, and that's
Speaker 1: oftentimes how slaves are treated. You still don't want them
Speaker 1: to die. You need them digging. You have to feed them,
Speaker 1: You have to give them water. And it's an island
Speaker 1: surrounded by salt water, and there's not much water on
Speaker 1: the island. And guess what else I didn't tell you
Speaker 1: this last night. There are sources of fresh water on
Speaker 1: the island wells. Do you know what the knights did?
Speaker 1: What da Volette, he's the leader of the knights. Do
Speaker 1: you know what he did before the Ottomans got there.
Speaker 1: He took dead animals and dropped them into all the
Speaker 1: freshwater sources that were outside of the fort. Obviously, as
Speaker 1: you you've just figured out now that water is rotten.
Speaker 1: Your men can't touch it, or your men will get
Speaker 1: sick and die. It is a race against time. Every
Speaker 1: single siege always is a race against time for both sides.
Speaker 1: The people inside only have so much water, only have
Speaker 1: so much ammo, only have so much food. That people
Speaker 1: outside only have so much water, only have so much ammo,
Speaker 1: only have so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away
Speaker 1: and chipping away with these trenches, inching closer and closer
Speaker 1: and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not
Speaker 1: always static things. This is a talk we have about
Speaker 1: politics all the time. You can't just hide behind your walls.
Speaker 1: If they're pounding on your walls, or almost ready to
Speaker 1: start pounding on your walls, you are going to have
Speaker 1: to sally forth. You are going to have to leave
Speaker 1: your walls and try to fight them off, keep them
Speaker 1: off of the walls. And they are doing this, they're
Speaker 1: riding out from Saint Elmo when they can, usually at night.
Speaker 1: They're trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're attacking the
Speaker 1: trenches as you can imagine. So you have those trench workers,
Speaker 1: think what terrible luck this would be. You get stuck
Speaker 1: on trench duty. You're hot, you're thirsty, you're tired, your
Speaker 1: back hurts. You're chopping away at rock all day and
Speaker 1: you look up in time to see a night riding
Speaker 1: down on you, shoving a sword into your face. It
Speaker 1: is up close, it is personal, and it is a
Speaker 1: war of hatred. But the lines continue to get closer
Speaker 1: and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now the cannons have
Speaker 1: gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. They start knocking
Speaker 1: the walls down. But here's the problem. They're hitting the
Speaker 1: top of the walls, and they are knocking the mid
Speaker 1: to top of the walls down. But you can't send
Speaker 1: your troops over. If it's just the top of the
Speaker 1: walls down. You are going to have to send troops
Speaker 1: into the walls. You've got to attack the foundation. Now
Speaker 1: along comes one of the real, allegedly great leaders of
Speaker 1: the Ottomans. Dragot is his name to worry about, remembering
Speaker 1: that his nickname stands for tell me how cool this
Speaker 1: is the drawn sword of Islam. That's kind of cool, right,
Speaker 1: you gotta be honest, that's kind of cool. And I
Speaker 1: know no one's rooting for the Ottomans right now, but
Speaker 1: that's kind of a cool nickname. Dragot notices the cannons
Speaker 1: are not firing right. He's a hands on type. You
Speaker 1: don't earn the nickname drawn sort of Islam because you
Speaker 1: sit on your hands. And so he charges up to
Speaker 1: the Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, lower the cannons.
Speaker 1: We have to hit the foundation. We have to hit
Speaker 1: the bottom of the walls to drop it. Good for Dragot,
Speaker 1: But there is a reason many militaries don't send their
Speaker 1: commanders out like this. Drawoot catches a bullet in the back.
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Speaker 1: Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans are inching closer
Speaker 1: to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right, and I already
Speaker 1: mentioned his mouth is full of water. It's the great harbor.
Speaker 1: And I told you last night that you need to
Speaker 1: picture two teeth coming out the bottom part of his
Speaker 1: jaw towards the back of his jaw. Those are peninsulas
Speaker 1: controlled by the Knights. Fourti fied peninsulas The reason I
Speaker 1: bring this up is this. Maybe you've been wondering, if
Speaker 1: you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships, ships with
Speaker 1: cannons and things like that on them, why don't you
Speaker 1: just sail the ships into the Great Harbor and start
Speaker 1: shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well,
Speaker 1: remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth,
Speaker 1: which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You
Speaker 1: can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and
Speaker 1: start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two
Speaker 1: teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships.
Speaker 1: Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and
Speaker 1: you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long
Speaker 1: way from home. They are currently south of what is
Speaker 1: now Sicily. They have to when this is over, get
Speaker 1: all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's
Speaker 1: a long sail and you need boats. So they have
Speaker 1: to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now
Speaker 1: they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they
Speaker 1: finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo.
Speaker 1: They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo,
Speaker 1: big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact,
Speaker 1: not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking
Speaker 1: down outer walls, and they're bringing their cannons up and
Speaker 1: now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls.
Speaker 1: What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things.
Speaker 1: They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in
Speaker 1: the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand
Speaker 1: sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside
Speaker 1: of the gaps when they are not in the gaps
Speaker 1: at night, I told you there were civilians inside of
Speaker 1: Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians, they're grabbing mattresses, curtains,
Speaker 1: whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap
Speaker 1: that was just created for when the Ottomans come back
Speaker 1: the next day and know this everybody by now everyone
Speaker 1: in the fort, both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo
Speaker 1: is going to fall at this point in time. The
Speaker 1: Knights they send somebody across the harbor to dave Lette.
Speaker 1: In fact, dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave
Speaker 1: Lette send someone to them, the knights across the harbor,
Speaker 1: and they say, hey, we can't hold this fort anymore.
Speaker 1: Can we abland? Can we abandon it now? Can we
Speaker 1: abandon it and come to the other Can we come
Speaker 1: down to the tee? Can we come down to the
Speaker 1: other fortifications. Dava Let tells them, no, you have to stay.
Speaker 1: Why was he just a jerk? You may have been
Speaker 1: a jerk, I don't know. But every day the Ottomans
Speaker 1: were being occupied with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications
Speaker 1: on the two teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better,
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger and better, and dava Let needed Fort
Speaker 1: Saint Elmo to hold out as long as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: He essentially ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues,
Speaker 1: and it's bad, and it's ugly, and people were dying
Speaker 1: on both sides. Eventually Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This
Speaker 1: was something the Ottomans needed to happen in a few days.
Speaker 1: It took them a month to take what should have
Speaker 1: been a few days. You're running out of food, you're
Speaker 1: running out of water, and more importantly, remember those janissaries
Speaker 1: I brought up the Ottoman elite troops. You took one
Speaker 1: of the forts, and you lost half your janissaries. By
Speaker 1: the time it's done, the Ottomans have lost roughly six
Speaker 1: thousand of their men, and the Knights have lost about
Speaker 1: a thousand out of about the three thousand they have. Yes,
Speaker 1: they lost Fort Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was
Speaker 1: unbelievably costly for the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree,
Speaker 1: but you can argue, as of this point right now,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans have already lost the Siege of Malta. They
Speaker 1: lost too many of their elite troops. They lost too
Speaker 1: much time, too much food, too much water, too many
Speaker 1: cannon balls. You should probably pack it up and head out.
Speaker 1: That's not an option, as you can probably imagine, if
Speaker 1: you're an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise
Speaker 1: on back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent
Speaker 1: that your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure
Speaker 1: and you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's
Speaker 1: a good way to find your head on a spike.
Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Setting aside politics, Doc and some Moore Siege of Malta.
Speaker 1: Now let's get right back into it. The Ottomans have
Speaker 1: taken Fort Saint Elmo. Remember I told you in the
Speaker 1: beginning there were four fortified locations on this island. Number
Speaker 1: one is gone. Now they have to worry about the teeth.
Speaker 1: I told you this island. You need to picture it
Speaker 1: like pac Man. In the mouth is the Great Harbor,
Speaker 1: and Pacman has two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw.
Speaker 1: These are eninsulas that jut out into the Great Harbor,
Speaker 1: and they are fortified. There are civilians here, there are
Speaker 1: the rest, essentially the rest of the Knights here. They
Speaker 1: have been building fortifications and preparing for a long time
Speaker 1: for these Ottomans to come. Remember I said before, if
Speaker 1: you're the Ottomans, you can't just sail your boats right
Speaker 1: into the harbor because the fortifications are going to blow
Speaker 1: your boats out of the water. But if you're the Ottomans,
Speaker 1: you understand your boats are a force multiplier. They can
Speaker 1: carry troops, they have cannons on them. You need your
Speaker 1: boats into the tonsils. Essentially, you need to get your
Speaker 1: boats into the harbor. But you can't bring them in
Speaker 1: through the mouth. What to do? What to do? Well,
Speaker 1: this is something the Ottomans have done before history nerds
Speaker 1: will know this. It's part of what they did at
Speaker 1: the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans were they were wonderful engineers,
Speaker 1: and they were really great at combat. They figured out
Speaker 1: how to haul gigantic boats over the land. And they
Speaker 1: do picture how unbelievably labor intensive it would be to
Speaker 1: no construction and equipment. Right, there's no engine. They hauled
Speaker 1: their boats essentially pac Man's forehead. They hauled it down
Speaker 1: over pac Man's forehead and landed their boats back into
Speaker 1: pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils. Now they have
Speaker 1: their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over to the teeth.
Speaker 1: I told you the teeth are jutting out the bottom
Speaker 1: of pac Man's job. These are the two bottom peninsula fortifications.
Speaker 1: The Ottomans bring their cannons and their troops over land
Speaker 1: and they start doing the same thing to these peninsulas
Speaker 1: they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo, digging in trenches,
Speaker 1: cannons and they start bombarding the place. The Ottomans, now
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say desperate at all. But they're
Speaker 1: looking at the clock, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: important for our purposes here. It's not just food and
Speaker 1: water that's presenting problems for them. Back in the day.
Speaker 1: We don't think about this as much now, but seed travel.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, the day of sail, the day
Speaker 1: of the ore was very, very seasonal. When the weather
Speaker 1: got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold, when
Speaker 1: winter came, the winds were not right, the waves were
Speaker 1: not right. You couldn't just hop on the water anytime
Speaker 1: you wanted to hop on the water and just go
Speaker 1: sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall.
Speaker 1: Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in
Speaker 1: and they decide they're going to try something. The troops
Speaker 1: that are underneath the teeth, they're going to try to
Speaker 1: throw them at the walls while at the same time
Speaker 1: doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing
Speaker 1: using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the
Speaker 1: back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well.
Speaker 1: Things would have been going well, but there was something
Speaker 1: they didn't quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like
Speaker 1: I said, they had been making preparations. Part of those
Speaker 1: preparations were they had been putting up underwater spikes and
Speaker 1: in anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming
Speaker 1: to do exactly what they were going to do. The
Speaker 1: boats can't get all the way to the beach. They
Speaker 1: stall out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops
Speaker 1: and they're wading in under fire, and they're dying in droves.
Speaker 1: They're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I just they need to make a movie about this.
Speaker 1: I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's
Speaker 1: making a miniseries about this. They are dying well. Now
Speaker 1: the Ottomans try to press the issue and they decide
Speaker 1: they're going to try to sail their boats around the
Speaker 1: back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and
Speaker 1: they're thinking, well, their cannons aren't going to get to us.
Speaker 1: The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at
Speaker 1: sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start
Speaker 1: to sail the ships around the tooth and lo and
Speaker 1: behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a
Speaker 1: like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a
Speaker 1: hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right
Speaker 1: out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for
Speaker 1: the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops
Speaker 1: on the ships are going down with them, and your
Speaker 1: forces are being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I know you're thinking, aw all is gravy? Looks
Speaker 1: like the Knights have it. Not at all. This has
Speaker 1: been a tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans.
Speaker 1: But remember the Knights only have so much food too,
Speaker 1: only have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles
Speaker 1: for their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes,
Speaker 1: they had tried to provision themselves, and they had done
Speaker 1: very well, but they are in a real pickle. And
Speaker 1: those Ottoman cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls
Speaker 1: are dropping. They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly.
Speaker 1: And if the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it.
Speaker 1: The Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls, and
Speaker 1: now they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't
Speaker 1: figure out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their
Speaker 1: walls until it's almost too late. But they eventually do
Speaker 1: figure it out. What do they do. There's really only
Speaker 1: one thing you can do in that situation. You have
Speaker 1: to dig down inside of your city. Remember this is
Speaker 1: all by hand, and you have to dig a counter
Speaker 1: tunnel looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology.
Speaker 1: They find them. They meet under the walls of the
Speaker 1: Knights in the dark with muskets and swords and spears,
Speaker 1: and they have a nasty hand to hand combat war.
Speaker 1: In the pitch. Black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right,
Speaker 1: A nasty hand to hand combat war takes place in
Speaker 1: the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they
Speaker 1: carve the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they
Speaker 1: have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now,
Speaker 1: many people, many people to this. They believe that God
Speaker 1: stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the Knights.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are skeptical that maybe you believe that what
Speaker 1: happens next is one of the main justifications people will
Speaker 1: use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them, He
Speaker 1: saved them. I'll tell you what happens next. It is
Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember tomorrow is ask Doctor Jesse Friday.
Speaker 1: You need to get your questions emailed or asked Doctor
Speaker 1: Jesse Thursday. You need to get your questions emailed in
Speaker 1: now the Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. The Ottomans
Speaker 1: are trying to attack from the sea and the land.
Speaker 1: Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so I'm worried.
Speaker 1: I haven't been clear on that. It is mainly a
Speaker 1: land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth. That's
Speaker 1: where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches are coming.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to mix in as much of the
Speaker 1: ocean as they can while they have the boats. And
Speaker 1: the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say the
Speaker 1: knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls are crumbling.
Speaker 1: They're running out of men, they're running out of food,
Speaker 1: they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly outnumbered. Still,
Speaker 1: even though they've killed legions of these Ottomans, and the
Speaker 1: Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans can taste victory.
Speaker 1: Pause on that member. I told you there were four locations,
Speaker 1: pac Man's nose, pac Man's two teeth, and then Mdina
Speaker 1: pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there, but you
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. It's inland a little bit Indina. Well,
Speaker 1: Indina is aware they have a very very tiny force there,
Speaker 1: a tiny force there. Indina is aware that the two
Speaker 1: Teeth are in dire straits and if those fortificationations fall,
Speaker 1: it's over. The island will be taken. It's over. So
Speaker 1: they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit. Not a
Speaker 1: big unit, not a massive force. They're just going out
Speaker 1: to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces, what's the
Speaker 1: camp look like. Let's try to get word to this
Speaker 1: or that. Before I get to any of that, I
Speaker 1: do have to clarify how much hatred there is between
Speaker 1: these sides, because this part is important. Remember I told
Speaker 1: you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told you
Speaker 1: that earlier, many many years earlier, when Rhodes fell. Suliman
Speaker 1: the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he was
Speaker 1: angry that they were now fighting him when Fort Saint
Speaker 1: Elmo fell. But the Ottomans took the few knights who
Speaker 1: were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they disembowed them,
Speaker 1: desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity, they
Speaker 1: nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts, and
Speaker 1: then they floated them across the water back to the
Speaker 1: other forts. This is this is a military orders. What's
Speaker 1: that feel like if you're standing on the fort and
Speaker 1: you see the headless, gutless corpse of your friend with
Speaker 1: a little religious insult on top of it, floating at you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Knights didn't take it well? How not well did
Speaker 1: they take it? They took all the Ottoman prisoners they had,
Speaker 1: or a bunch of them. I heard all, and I
Speaker 1: heard a bunch. I don't know which is true. And
Speaker 1: they chopped their heads off, and they loaded their heads
Speaker 1: into the knight's cannons, and they started firing the heads
Speaker 1: of the captured Ottoman prisoners back towards the Ottoman lines.
Speaker 1: This is the degree of hatred we're dealing with and
Speaker 1: I saved that little story so you can understand what
Speaker 1: is at stake. As the Ottomans are now knocking down
Speaker 1: the walls of what are essentially the last two fortifications.
Speaker 1: You with me, this is hand to hand. Deve Alette,
Speaker 1: who is the leader, is not hiding out in his
Speaker 1: command post. He is crossing swords with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming,
Speaker 1: horrible hand to hand cannons. It's as bad as you
Speaker 1: can imagine. Back to Mdina, back to the recon force.
Speaker 1: This force rides out just sniffing around, and by God's providence,
Speaker 1: by accident. I don't know what you want to say.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there and I haven't asked God about it,
Speaker 1: they come across a gold mine. They come across the undefended,
Speaker 1: relatively undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are,
Speaker 1: where the wounded are being treated, where all their supplies are.
Speaker 1: The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp
Speaker 1: and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and
Speaker 1: then burning everything down on fire. Remember, at this exact moment,
Speaker 1: the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to
Speaker 1: win the entire island. They turn around and their camp
Speaker 1: is on fire.
Speaker 2: They freak out, call out the attack, which you would,
Speaker 2: and go charging back toward the This is happening in
Speaker 2: the matter of an hour, people say minutes, it depends
Speaker 2: on what you believe. Minutes away from Malta falling, they
Speaker 2: ride back towards the camp.
Speaker 1: The reconunit gets out. It is a horrible, horrible thing.
Speaker 1: The Ottomans now they're probably completely defeated, they've lost another
Speaker 1: four to six thousand, but they don't feel like they
Speaker 1: can just quit. They have to try something else, anything else,
Speaker 1: So they ride towards Mdina pac Man's Tonsils. Mdina is
Speaker 1: to say lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's
Speaker 1: almost no one there. They have almost no cannonballs, so
Speaker 1: they take everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians. They
Speaker 1: stand them on the walls and dress them up like soldiers,
Speaker 1: and then they take the few cannon balls they have
Speaker 1: and they shoot them at the Ottoman force when the
Speaker 1: Ottomans are out of range. Why they want the Ottomans
Speaker 1: to think they're loaded with cannonballs. We have as many.
Speaker 1: We have so many, we'll shoot them at you before
Speaker 1: you even get close enough. The Ottomans, by now their
Speaker 1: spirit is broken. They get shot at from out of range.
Speaker 1: They see all these air fingers quote troops on top
Speaker 1: of Mdina, and they say, screw this, We're leaving. They
Speaker 1: start marching back towards the other two teeth. I will
Speaker 1: wrap this up. It'll probably take me five minutes, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get back to politics in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But for all intents and purposes, the siege of Malta
Speaker 1: is pretty much much broken. It's mop up time. Now.
Speaker 1: Before we mop up, let's do a little bit of
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