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The Hospitaller Knights of Saint John, 1523-1565

Abercrombie, Gordon Ellyson2024

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The sequel to 'The Hospitaller Knights of Saint John at Rhodes, 1306-1522', this volume covers the period 1523-1565. This text opens with the relocation from Rhodes to Malta during the years following the Order's heart-rending loss of Rhodes to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman. This loss was also that of 4000 non-belligerent Christians choosing to abandon their homes and livelihoods and to accompany the Order in its search for a new home. The book further deals with the first 35 years of Hospitaller residence at Malta including operations from there along the coast of North Africa, with major sieges of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, with penetrating exposš of corsair admirals such as Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa and Dragut, and with giants of Christian history such as Andrea Doria. Finally, this volume deals with the Ottoman Empire's 1565 attempt to eradicate the Order with that year's Great Siege of Malta.