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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics for this
hour and we go ahead and step back into history,
we get ready to do the Siege of Malta Part two.
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I'm hoping I'll make it the final part of the
Siege of Malta. And then final hour we're gonna have
Selena Zita and we'll do emails and we'll talk about
commies and filtrating your business and all kinds of other things.
And I wanted to remind you tomorrow is Ask Doctor
Jesse Thursday, because I am out on Friday, so you
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gotta email your questions into Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
How the thirty second recap you're going to get from
last night is the Knights of Saint John. They're given
a horrible windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily.
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They begin fortifying it. There are four locations on it.
They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing.
They are taking over things. They've taken Constantinople Christian slash
Catholic Europe is petrified of the coming Muslim storm, and
the Ottomans, having let the Knights of Saint John go
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once before, have had enough of their raiding and pillaging
in the Mediterranean, and they land a thirty thousand man
force on Malta and they began to assault Fort number one.
It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now, in this Fort Saint Elmo,
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there's roughly a thousand men. They are not all knights, trained,
born and bred warriors at all. There are some knights,
there are some other soldiers, so they're not all completely
you know, untrained. And then there are civilians inside of
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the Fort Saint Elmo. Now let's talk about the Ottoman forces.
They have cannons, obviously, so that both sides have cannons.
This is the era of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans
not only have cannons, they have a bunch of regular
troops and they also have elite troops. Now think about
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them like this is their special forces types. They're called janissaries.
If you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will
know for a very long time they have had tip
of the speared troops called janissaries, now I want to
pause for a second, because this will apply to way
more than this story. This applies to any military engagement
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you ever read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers.
We obsess over numbers. They have so many thousand here,
and he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand,
and they have one hundred thousand, and they have the
But all troops are not the same, not at all.
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There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience
and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and
only seven hundred knights on the island does not mean
there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans who are
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lions on the battlefield. It does not mean that at all.
The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, highly highly experienced,
and there's not that many of them because you can't
make that many of them here. The numbers I read
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differed wildly. A lot of people say there are in
total about six thousand of the thirty thousand Ottomans where janisaries.
That number doesn't matter. These little details are not important.
Just know there are only so many of them, and
then when they're gone, when they're dead. You're back to
fairly pedestrian regular troops. And on the other side as well.
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You know, we said there are seven hundred nights, some
people say five hundred. Again, details don't matter, but there
are other regular troops, some not many, but some. But
they're not Knights. They're not guys who live and die
for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I use pac Man
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as an example last night to try to explain the
geography of what you're looking at here. And in pac
Man's mouth obviously is water, it's a great harbor. But
pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. It is not
not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did know they were coming,
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and they did build up the fortifications, but it is
not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they get their cannons down,
and as I pointed out last night, they began to
dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are not built in
a straight line. Remember, you have to zigzag in order
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to give your troops cover as they inch their way
towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this is a rocky,
miserable island, and right now it's hot. This island is
south of Sicily. We're in the month of July. It's hot.
Here's the unsexy part of so many battles, so many battles.
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Water you have to have it. This is hard work.
Think about the daily life of the Ottoman soldier or slave.
They had many, many slaves. As I pointed out, you
are chipping and chopping away at rock. You need food
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and you need water. Even if you don't care about
the lives of your slaves, and that's oftentimes how slaves
are treated, you still don't want them to die. You
need them digging. You have to feed them, you have
to give them water. And it's an island surrounded by
salt water, and there's not much water on the island.
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And guess what else I didn't tell you this last night.
There are sources of fresh water on the island wells.
Do you know what the Knights did? What da Volette,
he's the leader of the knights. Do you know what
he did before the Ottomans got there. He took dead
animals and dropped them into all the fresh water sources
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that were outside of the fort. Obviously, as you've just
figured out now, that water is rotten. Your men can't
touch it, or your men will get sick and die.
It is a race against time. Every single siege always
is a race against time for both sides. The people
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inside only have so much water, only have so much ammo,
only have so much food. The people outside only have
so much water, only have so much ammo, only have
so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away and chipping
away with these trenches, inching closer and closer and closer
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to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not always static things.
This is a talk we have about politics all the time.
You can't just hide behind your walls. If they're pounding
on your walls, or almost ready to start pounding on
your walls, you are going to have to sally forth.
You are going to have to leave your walls and
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go try to fight them off, keep them off of
the walls. And they are doing this, they're riding out
from Saint Elmo when they can, usually at night. They're
trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're attacking the trenches,
as you can imagine. So you have those trench workers
think what terrible luck this would be. You get stuck
on trench duty. You're hot you're thirsty, you're tired, your
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back hurts, you're chopping away at rock all day, and
you look up in time to see a night riding
down on you, shoving a sword into your face. It
is up close, it is personal, and it is a
war of hatred. But the lines continue to get closer
and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now the cannons have
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gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. They start knocking
the walls down. But here's the problem. They're hitting the
top of the walls and they are knocking the mid
to top of the walls down. But you can't send
your troops over. If it's just the top of the
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walls down, you are going to have to send troops
into the walls. You've got to attack the foundation. Now
along comes one of the real, allegedly great leaders of
the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name. Don't worry about remembering that.
His nickname stands for Tell me how cool this is
the drawn sword of Islam. That's kind of cool, right,
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you gotta be honest, that's kind of cool. And I
know no one's rooting for the Ottomans right now, but
that's kind of a cool. Nickname Dragot, notices the cannons
are not firing, right. He's a hands on type. You
don't earn the nickname drawn sort of Islam because sit
on your hands. And so he charges up to the
Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, lower the cannons. We
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have to hit the foundation. We have to hit the
bottom of the walls to drop it. Good for Drawgot,
But there is a reason many militaries don't send their
commanders out like this. Drawgot catches a bullet in the back. Allegedly,
no one will ever know for sure from his own troops.
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By the way. Some people say the head, some people
say the back. It was an accident, Chris, it was
an accident. He goes back to his lines, mortally wounded,
and dies five days later. Now you have a morale
problem for the Ottomans. Pause on this. We'll continue in
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It's still real to me.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Dammit the Terrans gags. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
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Ask doctor Jesse Thursday tomorrow. I'll get your questions emailed
into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans
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are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right
and I already mentioned. His mouth is full of water.
It's the Great Harbor. And I told you last night
that you need to picture two teeth coming out the
bottom part of his jaw, towards the back of his jaw.
Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights, four to fied peninsulas.
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The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've
been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships,
ships with cannons and things like that on them, why
don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor
and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well,
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remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth,
which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You
can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and
start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two
teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships.
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Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and
you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind,
the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long
way from home. They are currently south of what is
now Sicily they have to when this is over, get
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all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's
a long sail and you need boats. So they have
to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now
they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they
finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo.
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They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo,
big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact,
not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking
down outer walls and they're bringing their cannons up and
now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls.
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What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things.
They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in
the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand
sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside
of the gaps when they are not in the gaps.
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At night, I told you there were civilians inside of
Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians. They're grabbing mattresses, curtains,
whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap
that was just created for when the Ottomans come back
the next day and know this everybody by now, everyone
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in the fort both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo
is going to fall at this point in time. The Knights,
they send somebody across the harbor to Develllette. In fact,
dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave Lette send
someone to them, the Knights across the harbor, and they say, hey,
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we can't hold this fort anymore, can we aband? Can
we abandon it now? Can we abandon it and come
to the other Can we come down to the teeth?
Can we come down to the other fortifications. Dave Lette
tells them, no, you have to stay. Why was he
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just a jerk? You may have been a jerk, I
don't know. But every day the Ottomans were being occupied
with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications on the two
teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, bigger and
stronger and better, and deva Lette needed Fort Saint Elmo
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to hold out as long as humanly possible. He essentially
ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and it's
bad and it's ugly, and people were dying on both sides. Eventually,
Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was something the Ottomans
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needed to happen in a few days. It took them
a month to take what should have been a few days.
You're running out of food, you're running out of water,
and more importantly, remember those Janet series I brought up
the Ottoman elite troops. You took one of the forts,
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and you lost half your janissaries. By the time it's done,
the Ottomans have lost roughly six thousand of their men,
and the Knights have lost about a thousand out of
about the three thousand they have. Yes, they lost Fort
Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was unbelievably costly for
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the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, but you
can argue, as of this point, right now, the Ottomans
have already lost the Siege of Malta. They lost too
many of their elite troops. They lost too much time,
too much food, too much water, too many cannon balls.
You should probably pack it up and head out. That's
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not an option, as you can probably imagine, if you're
an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise on
back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent that
your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure and
you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's a
good way to find your head on a spike. So
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now that you have Fort Saint Elmo, you have to
go take the two teeth, Senglia and Burgo. That's what
we're gonna call them, Seglia and Burgo. They have forts
on them that are called it. We're just gonna make
it simple. Senglia and Burgo. That's where we go next.
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Jesse All right, we continue next. He doesn't care if
you believe him, but he's right, Jesse Kelly. It is
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the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday. Setting aside politics,
docking some more. Siege of Malta. Now let's get right
back into it. The Ottomans have taken Fort Saint Elmo.
Remember I told you in the beginning there were four
fortified locations on this island. Number one is gone. Now
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they have to worry about the teeth. I told you
this island. You need to picture it like Pacban in
the mouth is the Great Harbor, and pac Band has
two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. These are peninsulas
that jut out into the Great Harbor, and they are fortified.
There are civilians here. There are the rest, essentially the
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rest of the Knights here. They have been building fortifications
and preparing for a long time for these Ottomans to come.
Remember I said before, if you're the Ottomans, you can't
just sail your boats right into the harbor because the
fortifications are going to blow your boats out of the water.
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But if you're the Ottomans, you understand your boats are
a force multiplier. They can carry troops, they have cannons
on them. You need your boats into the tonsils. Essentially,
you need to get your boats into the harbor, but
you can't bring them in through the mouth. What to do?
What to do? Well, this is something the Ottomans have
done before. History nerds will know this. It's part of
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what they did at the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans
were they were wonderful engineers, and they were really great
at combat. They figured out how to haul gigantic boats
over the land. And they do picture how unbelievably labor
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intensive it would be to no construction and equipment. Right,
there's no engine. They hauled their boats essentially pac Man's forehead.
They hauled it down over pac Man's forehead and landed
their boats back into pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils.
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Now they have their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over
to the teeth. I told you, the teeth are jutting
out the bottom of pack man's job. These are the
two bottom peninsula fortifications. The Ottomans bring their cannons and
their troops over land and they start doing the same
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thing to these peninsulas they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo,
digging in trenches, cannons and they start bombarding the place.
The Ottomans, now, I'm not going to stay desperate at all,
but they're looking at the clock and this is going
to be important for our purposes here. It's not just
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food and water that's presenting problems for them. Back in
the day. We don't think about this as much now,
but see travel. Back in the day, the day of sale,
the day of the ore was very, very seasonal. When
the weather got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold,
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when winter came, the winds were not right, the waves
were not right. You couldn't just hop on the water
anytime you wanted to hop on the water and just
go sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah,
the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall.
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Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances
they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in
and they decide they're going to try something the troops
that are underneath the teeth. They're going to try to
throw them at the walls while at the same time
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doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing
using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the
back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well,
have been going well, but there was something they didn't
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quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like I said,
they had been making preparations. Part of those preparations were
they had been putting up underwater spikes and steaks in
anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming to
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do exactly what they were going to do. The boats
can't get all the way to the beach. They stall
out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops and
they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves,
they're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly,
I just they need to make a movie about this.
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I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's
making a mini series about this. They are dying. Well, now,
the Ottomans try to press the issue, and they decide
they're going to try to sail their boats around the
back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and
they're thinking, well, their cannons aren't going to get to us.
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The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at
sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start
to sail the ships around the tooth, and lo and
behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a
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like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a
hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right
out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for
the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops
on the ships are going down with them, and your
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forces are.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, now I
know you're thinking, a all is gravy, looks like the
Knights have it not at all. This has been a
tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. But
remember the Knights only have so much food too, only
have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles. For
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their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes,
they had tried to provision themselves and they had done
very well.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But they are in a real pickle. And those Ottoman
cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls are dropping.
They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. And if
the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. The
Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls and now
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they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, the
Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't figure
out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their walls
until it's almost too late, but they eventually do figure
it out. What do they do. There's really only one
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thing you can do in that situation. You have to
dig down inside of your city. Remember this is all
by hand, and you have to dig a counter tunnel.
Looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. They
find them. They meet under the walls of the Knights
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in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, and
they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. In
the pitch. Black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right,
a nasty hand to hand combat. War takes place in
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the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they
cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they
have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now,
many people, many people to this day, they believe that
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God stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the Knights.
Maybe you are skeptical of that. Maybe you believe that
what happens next is one of the main justifications people
will use to say, Oh my gosh, God saved them,
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He saved them. I'll tell you what happens next in
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The Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and
the land. Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so
I'm worried. I haven't been clear on that. It is
mainly a land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth.
That's where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches
are coming. They're just trying to mix in as much
of the ocean as they can while they have the boats.
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And the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say
the knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls
are crumbling. They're running out of men, they're running out
of food, they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly
outnumbered still even though they've killed legions of these autisms,
and the Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans
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can taste victory. Pause on that. Remember I told you
there were four locations pac Man's Nose, pac Man's two teeth,
and then Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there,
but you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little
bit Indina. Well, Indina is aware they have a very
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very tiny force there, a tiny force there. Indina is
aware that the two Teeth are in dire straits and
if those fortifications fall, it's over. The island will be taken.
It's over. So they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit,
not a big unit, not a massive force. They're just
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going out to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces.
What's the camp look like, let's try to word to
this or that. Before I get to any of that,
I do have to clarify how much hatred there is
between these sides, because this part is important. Remember I
told you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told
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you that earlier, many many years earlier, when Rhodes fell.
Suliman the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he
was angry that they were now fighting him when Fort
Saint Elmo fell. But the Ottomans took the few knights
who were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they
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disembowed them, desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity,
they nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts,
and then they floated them across the water back to
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the other forts. This is this is a military orders.
What's that feel like if you're standing on the fort
and you see the headless, gutless corpse of your friend
with a little religious insult on top of it, floating
at you. Yeah, the Knights didn't take it well? How
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not well did they take it? They took all the
Ottoman prisoners they had, or a bunch of them. I
heard all and I heard a bunch I don't know
which is true, And they chopped their heads off, and
they loaded their heads into the knights cannons, and they
started firing the heads of the captured Ottoman prisoners back
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towards the Ottoman lines. This is the degree of hatred
we're dealing with. And I saved that little story so
you can understand what is at stake. As the autumn
are now knocking down the walls of what are essentially
the last two fortifications. You with me, this is hand
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to hand. Deve Alette, who is the leader, is not
hiding out in his command post. He is crossing swords
with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming, horrible, hand
to hand cannons. It's as bad as you can imagine.
Back to Mdina, back to the recon force. This force
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rides out just sniffing around and by God's providence, by accident.
I don't know what you want to say. I wasn't
there and I haven't asked God about it. They come
across a gold mine. They come across the undefended, relatively
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undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are, where
the wounded are being treated where all their supplies are.
The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp
and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and
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then burning everything down on fire. Remember at this exact moment,
the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to
win the entire island. They turn around and their camp
is on fire.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
They freak out, call out the attack, which you would,
and go charging back toward the camp. This is happening
in the matter of an hour, people say minutes, it
depends on what you believe.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Minutes away from Malta falling, they ride back towards the camp.
The reconunit gets out. It is a horrible, horrible thing.
The Ottomans now they're probably completely defeated, they've lost another
four to six thousand, but they don't feel like they
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can just quit. They have to try something else, anything else,
So they ride towards Mdina pac Man's Tonsils. Mdina is
to say lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's
almost no one there. They have almost no cannon balls,
so they take everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians.
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They stand them on the walls and dress them up
like soldiers. And then they take the few cannon balls
they have and they shoot them at the Ottoman force
when the Ottomans are out of range. Why they want
the Ottomans to think they're loaded with cannon balls. We
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have as many. We have so many, we'll shoot them
at you before you even get close enough. The Ottomans,
by now their spirit is broken. They get shot at
from out of range. They see all these air fingers
quote troops on top of m Dina, and they say,
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screw this, we're leaving. They start marching back towards the
other two teeth. I will wrap this up and it'll probably
take me five minutes, and then we'll get back to
politics in just a moment. But for all intents and purposes,
the siege of Malta is pretty much broken. It's mop
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This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Wednesday. As we set aside politics for this
hour and we go ahead and step back into history,
we get ready to do the Siege of Malta Part two.
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I'm hoping I'll make it the final part of the
Siege of Malta. And then final hour we're gonna have
Selena Zita and we'll do emails and we'll talk about
commies and filtrating your business and all kinds of other things.
And I wanted to remind you tomorrow is Ask Doctor
Jesse Thursday, because I am out on Friday, so you
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gotta email your questions into Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
How the thirty second recap you're going to get from
last night is the Knights of Saint John. They're given
a horrible windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily.
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They begin fortifying it. There are four locations on it.
They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing.
They are taking over things. They've taken Constantinople Christian slash
Catholic Europe is petrified of the coming Muslim storm, and
the Ottomans, having let the Knights of Saint John go
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once before, have had enough of their raiding and pillaging
in the Mediterranean, and they land a thirty thousand man
force on Malta and they began to assault Fort number one.
It's called Fort Saint Elmo. Now, in this Fort Saint Elmo,
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there's roughly a thousand men. They are not all knights, trained,
born and bred warriors at all. There are some knights,
there are some other soldiers, so they're not all completely
you know, untrained. And then there are civilians inside of
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the Fort Saint Elmo. Now let's talk about the Ottoman forces.
They have cannons, obviously, so that both sides have cannons.
This is the era of cannons and muskets. The Ottomans
not only have cannons, they have a bunch of regular
troops and they also have elite troops. Now think about
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them like this is their special forces types. They're called janissaries.
If you know anything about the Ottoman Empire, you will
know for a very long time they have had tip
of the speared troops called janissaries, now I want to
pause for a second, because this will apply to way
more than this story. This applies to any military engagement
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you ever read about or learn about. We obsess over numbers.
We obsess over numbers. They have so many thousand here,
and he has fifty thousand, and they have twenty thousand,
and they have one hundred thousand, and they have the
But all troops are not the same, not at all.
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There are widely, widely different levels of training and experience
and equipment. Just because there are thirty thousand Ottomans and
only seven hundred knights on the island does not mean
there are thirty thousand, trained, equipped, capable Ottomans who are
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lions on the battlefield. It does not mean that at all.
The Janisaries, however, are trained, equipped, lions, highly highly experienced,
and there's not that many of them because you can't
make that many of them here. The numbers I read
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differed wildly. A lot of people say there are in
total about six thousand of the thirty thousand Ottomans where janisaries.
That number doesn't matter. These little details are not important.
Just know there are only so many of them, and
then when they're gone, when they're dead. You're back to
fairly pedestrian regular troops. And on the other side as well.
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You know, we said there are seven hundred nights, some
people say five hundred. Again, details don't matter, but there
are other regular troops, some not many, but some. But
they're not Knights. They're not guys who live and die
for this now Fort Saint Elmo. I use pac Man
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as an example last night to try to explain the
geography of what you're looking at here. And in pac
Man's mouth obviously is water, it's a great harbor. But
pac Man's nose is Fort Saint Elmo. It is not
not some impregnable fortress. The Knights did know they were coming,
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and they did build up the fortifications, but it is
not an impregnable fortress. The Ottomans they get their cannons down,
and as I pointed out last night, they began to
dig trenches towards the fort. Trenches are not built in
a straight line. Remember, you have to zigzag in order
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to give your troops cover as they inch their way
towards the wall. I mentioned earlier, this is a rocky,
miserable island, and right now it's hot. This island is
south of Sicily. We're in the month of July. It's hot.
Here's the unsexy part of so many battles, so many battles.
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Water you have to have it. This is hard work.
Think about the daily life of the Ottoman soldier or slave.
They had many, many slaves. As I pointed out, you
are chipping and chopping away at rock. You need food
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and you need water. Even if you don't care about
the lives of your slaves, and that's oftentimes how slaves
are treated, you still don't want them to die. You
need them digging. You have to feed them, you have
to give them water. And it's an island surrounded by
salt water, and there's not much water on the island.
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And guess what else I didn't tell you this last night.
There are sources of fresh water on the island wells.
Do you know what the Knights did? What da Volette,
he's the leader of the knights. Do you know what
he did before the Ottomans got there. He took dead
animals and dropped them into all the fresh water sources
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that were outside of the fort. Obviously, as you've just
figured out now, that water is rotten. Your men can't
touch it, or your men will get sick and die.
It is a race against time. Every single siege always
is a race against time for both sides. The people
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inside only have so much water, only have so much ammo,
only have so much food. The people outside only have
so much water, only have so much ammo, only have
so much food. The Ottomans start chopping away and chipping
away with these trenches, inching closer and closer and closer
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to Fort Saint Elmo. But sieges are not always static things.
This is a talk we have about politics all the time.
You can't just hide behind your walls. If they're pounding
on your walls, or almost ready to start pounding on
your walls, you are going to have to sally forth.
You are going to have to leave your walls and
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go try to fight them off, keep them off of
the walls. And they are doing this, they're riding out
from Saint Elmo when they can, usually at night. They're
trying to kill as many Ottomans. They're attacking the trenches,
as you can imagine. So you have those trench workers
think what terrible luck this would be. You get stuck
on trench duty. You're hot you're thirsty, you're tired, your
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back hurts, you're chopping away at rock all day, and
you look up in time to see a night riding
down on you, shoving a sword into your face. It
is up close, it is personal, and it is a
war of hatred. But the lines continue to get closer
and closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Now the cannons have
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gotten close enough to Fort Saint Elmo. They start knocking
the walls down. But here's the problem. They're hitting the
top of the walls and they are knocking the mid
to top of the walls down. But you can't send
your troops over. If it's just the top of the
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walls down, you are going to have to send troops
into the walls. You've got to attack the foundation. Now
along comes one of the real, allegedly great leaders of
the Ottomans. Dragoot is his name. Don't worry about remembering that.
His nickname stands for Tell me how cool this is
the drawn sword of Islam. That's kind of cool, right,
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you gotta be honest, that's kind of cool. And I
know no one's rooting for the Ottomans right now, but
that's kind of a cool. Nickname Dragot, notices the cannons
are not firing, right. He's a hands on type. You
don't earn the nickname drawn sort of Islam because sit
on your hands. And so he charges up to the
Ottoman lines to say, hey, idiots, lower the cannons. We
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have to hit the foundation. We have to hit the
bottom of the walls to drop it. Good for Drawgot,
But there is a reason many militaries don't send their
commanders out like this. Drawgot catches a bullet in the back. Allegedly,
no one will ever know for sure from his own troops.
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By the way. Some people say the head, some people
say the back. It was an accident, Chris, it was
an accident. He goes back to his lines, mortally wounded,
and dies five days later. Now you have a morale
problem for the Ottomans. Pause on this. We'll continue in
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It's still real to me.
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Ask doctor Jesse Thursday tomorrow. I'll get your questions emailed
into Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So the Ottomans
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are inching closer to Fort Saint Elmo. Pacman's nose right
and I already mentioned. His mouth is full of water.
It's the Great Harbor. And I told you last night
that you need to picture two teeth coming out the
bottom part of his jaw, towards the back of his jaw.
Those are peninsulas controlled by the Knights, four to fied peninsulas.
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The reason I bring this up is this. Maybe you've
been wondering, if you're the Ottomans, you have all these ships,
ships with cannons and things like that on them, why
don't you just sail the ships into the Great Harbor
and start shooting at Fort Saint Elmo from the other side. Well,
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remember the Knights have cannons two and those two teeth,
which we will get to, there's fortifications on there. You
can't just sail your ships into the Great Harbor and
start firing at Fort Saint Elmo, because then those two
teeth are gonna start firing their cannons at your ships.
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Here's a little foreshadowing which is gonna happen anyway, and
you are gonna lose your ships. Keep this in mind,
the Ottomans are not home. The Ottomans are a long
way from home. They are currently south of what is
now Sicily they have to when this is over, get
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all the way back to what is now Istanbul. That's
a long sail and you need boats. So they have
to keep inching their way towards Fort Saint Elmo. Now
they do. It is a hard, brutal slog, but they
finally find themselves at the walls of Fort Saint Elmo.
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They start knocking holes in the walls of Fort Saint Elmo,
big ones walls their troops can pour through. In fact,
not only can their troops pour through them, they're knocking
down outer walls and they're bringing their cannons up and
now shooting cannons practically point blank at the inner walls.
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What's happening inside of Fort Saint Elmo couple different things.
They are charging forward whenever there is a gap in
the wall, and there is brutal, vicious hand to hand
sword and spear combat where bodies are stacking up inside
of the gaps when they are not in the gaps.
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At night, I told you there were civilians inside of
Fort Saint Elmo. Everybody, including the civilians. They're grabbing mattresses, curtains,
whatever you can grab to throw it in the gap
that was just created for when the Ottomans come back
the next day and know this everybody by now, everyone
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in the fort both sides, they know Fort Saint Elmo
is going to fall at this point in time. The Knights,
they send somebody across the harbor to Develllette. In fact,
dave Lette send someone to them too. Dave Lette send
someone to them, the Knights across the harbor, and they say, hey,
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we can't hold this fort anymore, can we aband? Can
we abandon it now? Can we abandon it and come
to the other Can we come down to the teeth?
Can we come down to the other fortifications. Dave Lette
tells them, no, you have to stay. Why was he
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just a jerk? You may have been a jerk, I
don't know. But every day the Ottomans were being occupied
with taking Fort Saint Elmo. The fortifications on the two
teeth were getting bigger and stronger and better, bigger and
stronger and better, and deva Lette needed Fort Saint Elmo
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to hold out as long as humanly possible. He essentially
ordered them to die. Now the fighting continues, and it's
bad and it's ugly, and people were dying on both sides. Eventually,
Fort Saint Elmo does fall. This was something the Ottomans
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needed to happen in a few days. It took them
a month to take what should have been a few days.
You're running out of food, you're running out of water,
and more importantly, remember those Janet series I brought up
the Ottoman elite troops. You took one of the forts,
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and you lost half your janissaries. By the time it's done,
the Ottomans have lost roughly six thousand of their men,
and the Knights have lost about a thousand out of
about the three thousand they have. Yes, they lost Fort
Saint Almo. The Knights did. It was unbelievably costly for
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the Ottomans. You can argue. I would disagree, but you
can argue, as of this point, right now, the Ottomans
have already lost the Siege of Malta. They lost too
many of their elite troops. They lost too much time,
too much food, too much water, too many cannon balls.
You should probably pack it up and head out. That's
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not an option, as you can probably imagine, if you're
an Ottoman commander, you really don't want to cruise on
back across the ocean and tell Suliman the Magnificent that
your thirty thousand troop expedition is a huge failure and
you were unable to dislodge those pesky Christians. That's a
good way to find your head on a spike. So
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now that you have Fort Saint Elmo, you have to
go take the two teeth, Senglia and Burgo. That's what
we're gonna call them, Seglia and Burgo. They have forts
on them that are called it. We're just gonna make
it simple. Senglia and Burgo. That's where we go next.
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you believe him, but he's right, Jesse Kelly. It is
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the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday. Setting aside politics,
docking some more. Siege of Malta. Now let's get right
back into it. The Ottomans have taken Fort Saint Elmo.
Remember I told you in the beginning there were four
fortified locations on this island. Number one is gone. Now
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they have to worry about the teeth. I told you
this island. You need to picture it like Pacban in
the mouth is the Great Harbor, and pac Band has
two gigantic teeth in his bottom jaw. These are peninsulas
that jut out into the Great Harbor, and they are fortified.
There are civilians here. There are the rest, essentially the
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rest of the Knights here. They have been building fortifications
and preparing for a long time for these Ottomans to come.
Remember I said before, if you're the Ottomans, you can't
just sail your boats right into the harbor because the
fortifications are going to blow your boats out of the water.
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But if you're the Ottomans, you understand your boats are
a force multiplier. They can carry troops, they have cannons
on them. You need your boats into the tonsils. Essentially,
you need to get your boats into the harbor, but
you can't bring them in through the mouth. What to do?
What to do? Well, this is something the Ottomans have
done before. History nerds will know this. It's part of
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what they did at the Siege of Constantinople. The Ottomans
were they were wonderful engineers, and they were really great
at combat. They figured out how to haul gigantic boats
over the land. And they do picture how unbelievably labor
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intensive it would be to no construction and equipment. Right,
there's no engine. They hauled their boats essentially pac Man's forehead.
They hauled it down over pac Man's forehead and landed
their boats back into pac Man's back by pac Man's tonsils.
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Now they have their fortifications. Okay, so let's go over
to the teeth. I told you, the teeth are jutting
out the bottom of pack man's job. These are the
two bottom peninsula fortifications. The Ottomans bring their cannons and
their troops over land and they start doing the same
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thing to these peninsulas they started doing to Fort Saint Elmo,
digging in trenches, cannons and they start bombarding the place.
The Ottomans, now, I'm not going to stay desperate at all,
but they're looking at the clock and this is going
to be important for our purposes here. It's not just
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food and water that's presenting problems for them. Back in
the day. We don't think about this as much now,
but see travel. Back in the day, the day of sale,
the day of the ore was very, very seasonal. When
the weather got bad in the Mediterranean, when it got cold,
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when winter came, the winds were not right, the waves
were not right. You couldn't just hop on the water
anytime you wanted to hop on the water and just
go sail wherever you wanted. It didn't work that way. Yeah,
the seeds started in the summer. It's closing in on fall.
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Because of this, the Ottomans have to take some chances
they probably wouldn't otherwise take. They bring the boats in
and they decide they're going to try something the troops
that are underneath the teeth. They're going to try to
throw them at the walls while at the same time
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doing a landing using the boats, doing an amphibious landing
using the boats by the back tooth, essentially by the
back tooth. They try it. They think things are going well,
have been going well, but there was something they didn't
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quite plan on the boats. The Knights, like I said,
they had been making preparations. Part of those preparations were
they had been putting up underwater spikes and steaks in
anticipation of the Ottomans coming to do it, coming to
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do exactly what they were going to do. The boats
can't get all the way to the beach. They stall
out in the water. Now you're unloading your troops and
they're wading in under fire and they're dying in droves,
they're dying in the water, they're dying on the beaches. Honestly,
I just they need to make a movie about this.
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I really hope the rumors are true that Mel Gibson's
making a mini series about this. They are dying. Well, now,
the Ottomans try to press the issue, and they decide
they're going to try to sail their boats around the
back tooth, around the tip of it. They're looking and
they're thinking, well, their cannons aren't going to get to us.
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The Knights had prepared for that too, They had at
sea level cannons the Ottomans didn't know about. They start
to sail the ships around the tooth, and lo and
behold there are night cannons waiting for them, like a
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like a rabbit jumping right into the mouth of a
hungry lion. These cannons start smoking the Ottoman ships right
out of the water. And remember, reinforcements aren't coming for
the Ottomans. As the ships are going down, the troops
on the ships are going down with them, and your
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forces are.
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Being depleted, and they're being depleted rapidly. Okay, now I
know you're thinking, a all is gravy, looks like the
Knights have it not at all. This has been a
tail of a lot of hardship for the Ottomans. But
remember the Knights only have so much food too, only
have so much shot to ammunition for their rifles. For
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their cannons. They only have so much water too. Yes,
they had tried to provision themselves and they had done
very well.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
But they are in a real pickle. And those Ottoman
cannons are still falling, and the Knight's walls are dropping.
They are dropping, and they are dropping rapidly. And if
the Ottomans get through the walls, well that's it. The
Ottomans start throwing themselves crazily at the walls and now
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they're digging a tunnel underneath them. Like I said, the
Ottomans are great at this. The Knights, they don't figure
out that the Ottomans have tunneled completely underneath their walls
until it's almost too late, but they eventually do figure
it out. What do they do. There's really only one
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thing you can do in that situation. You have to
dig down inside of your city. Remember this is all
by hand, and you have to dig a counter tunnel.
Looking for their tunnel under the ground ancient technology. They
find them. They meet under the walls of the Knights
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in the dark with muskets and swords and spears, and
they have a nasty hand to hand combat war. In
the pitch. Black people have died in terrible scary ways. Right,
a nasty hand to hand combat. War takes place in
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the tunnels, and the Knights prevail. The Knights prevail, they
cave the whole thing in. Now the Ottomans have they
have no choice but to throw themselves against the walls. Now,
many people, many people to this day, they believe that
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God stepped in repeatedly at different times to save the Knights.
Maybe you are skeptical of that. Maybe you believe that
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The Ottomans are trying to attack from the sea and
the land. Jewish producer Chris was unclear on that, so
I'm worried. I haven't been clear on that. It is
mainly a land attack on the peninsulas. They're under the teeth.
That's where all the bombardment's coming. That's where the trenches
are coming. They're just trying to mix in as much
of the ocean as they can while they have the boats.
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And the Knights are crumbling the walls. I shouldn't say
the knights are crumbling. That's probably not fair. The walls
are crumbling. They're running out of men, they're running out
of food, they're running out of walls. They are hopelessly
outnumbered still even though they've killed legions of these autisms,
and the Ottomans are smashing the walls, and the Ottomans
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can taste victory. Pause on that. Remember I told you
there were four locations pac Man's Nose, pac Man's two teeth,
and then Mdina pac Man's tonsils. It's not necessarily exactly there,
but you get what I'm saying. It's inland a little
bit Indina. Well, Indina is aware they have a very
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very tiny force there, a tiny force there. Indina is
aware that the two Teeth are in dire straits and
if those fortifications fall, it's over. The island will be taken.
It's over. So they decide to send out a reconnaissance unit,
not a big unit, not a massive force. They're just
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going out to sniff around. Where are the Ottoman forces.
What's the camp look like, let's try to word to
this or that. Before I get to any of that,
I do have to clarify how much hatred there is
between these sides, because this part is important. Remember I
told you that Fort Saint Elmo fell. Remember I told
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you that earlier, many many years earlier, when Rhodes fell.
Suliman the Magnificent had let the Knights go, and he
was angry that they were now fighting him when Fort
Saint Elmo fell. But the Ottomans took the few knights
who were left alive. They chopped off their heads, they
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disembowed them, desecrating the corpses. Then as an insult to Christianity,
they nailed them to crosses, without heads and without guts,
and then they floated them across the water back to
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the other forts. This is this is a military orders.
What's that feel like if you're standing on the fort
and you see the headless, gutless corpse of your friend
with a little religious insult on top of it, floating
at you. Yeah, the Knights didn't take it well? How
(33:26):
not well did they take it? They took all the
Ottoman prisoners they had, or a bunch of them. I
heard all and I heard a bunch I don't know
which is true, And they chopped their heads off, and
they loaded their heads into the knights cannons, and they
started firing the heads of the captured Ottoman prisoners back
(33:47):
towards the Ottoman lines. This is the degree of hatred
we're dealing with. And I saved that little story so
you can understand what is at stake. As the autumn
are now knocking down the walls of what are essentially
the last two fortifications. You with me, this is hand
(34:08):
to hand. Deve Alette, who is the leader, is not
hiding out in his command post. He is crossing swords
with Ottomans on the walls. Bloody, nasty, screaming, horrible, hand
to hand cannons. It's as bad as you can imagine.
Back to Mdina, back to the recon force. This force
(34:33):
rides out just sniffing around and by God's providence, by accident.
I don't know what you want to say. I wasn't
there and I haven't asked God about it. They come
across a gold mine. They come across the undefended, relatively
(34:56):
undefended Ottoman camp, the camp where the cooks are, where
the wounded are being treated where all their supplies are.
The recon unit, by accident, stumbles into the Ottoman camp
and they promptly start slaughtering everyone in the camp and
(35:17):
then burning everything down on fire. Remember at this exact moment,
the Ottomans are plowing through the walls, getting ready to
win the entire island. They turn around and their camp
is on fire.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
They freak out, call out the attack, which you would,
and go charging back toward the camp. This is happening
in the matter of an hour, people say minutes, it
depends on what you believe.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Minutes away from Malta falling, they ride back towards the camp.
The reconunit gets out. It is a horrible, horrible thing.
The Ottomans now they're probably completely defeated, they've lost another
four to six thousand, but they don't feel like they
(36:08):
can just quit. They have to try something else, anything else,
So they ride towards Mdina pac Man's Tonsils. Mdina is
to say lightly defended would be putting it mildly. There's
almost no one there. They have almost no cannon balls,
so they take everyone they do have, including defenseless civilians.
(36:33):
They stand them on the walls and dress them up
like soldiers. And then they take the few cannon balls
they have and they shoot them at the Ottoman force
when the Ottomans are out of range. Why they want
the Ottomans to think they're loaded with cannon balls. We
(36:56):
have as many. We have so many, we'll shoot them
at you before you even get close enough. The Ottomans,
by now their spirit is broken. They get shot at
from out of range. They see all these air fingers
quote troops on top of m Dina, and they say,
(37:18):
screw this, we're leaving. They start marching back towards the
other two teeth. I will wrap this up and it'll probably
take me five minutes, and then we'll get back to
politics in just a moment. But for all intents and purposes,
the siege of Malta is pretty much broken. It's mop
(37:40):
up time. Now. Before we mop up, let's do a
little bit of good. Let's not forget about the widows
and orphans we just had. I am sure you saw
another cop ambushed, ambushed in a courthouse. Leave. It's terrible.
(38:03):
Who cares for these families? When cops die in the
line of duty, When firefighters die in the line of duty.
How how do you even pick it up and move on?
Tunnel to Towers has been standing alongside these families for
over two decades. Remember remember they built them an entire
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