Shields High: The Siege Of Malta Part One

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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‘Nothing is better known than the Siege of Malta.’ Voltaire wrote these words after the epic battle of that name- also called “The Great Siege”- in 1565 A.D. The fierce, brutal showdown on a tiny fortified island in the Mediterranean saw Christian knights of the Holy Order of Saint John defeat what was the most powerful military in the world at the time, the Ottoman Empire. The Siege of Malta turned back the Islamic Jihad, and prevented Ottoman plans to use the island as a stepping stone for invasion of Italy and the conquest of the Vatican itself.

Among the heroes of The Great Siege is a largely forgotten to history French Noble- a member of the Knights of Saint John (also known as the Knights Hospitaller), named Mathurin Romegas. He was a warrior monk and skilled pirate against the “infidel Turk,” all in the name of Christendom.

As the first of a two part series, this episode will lay out the Mediterranean world leading up to the great siege and focus in on the tale of Romegas, one of the great military heroes of the battles of cross and crescent in the 15th century. Part two will be on the actual siege itself.

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0:00.0	The battles of the past define the present. This is Shield's High.
0:18.7	Who is the greatest general of all time? Some of you are probably thinking or perhaps
0:24.2	even saying out loud what your answer would be to that question. I'll examine to the
0:28.0	great Napoleon Bonaparte, Hannibal Barker, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, perhaps Ulysses
0:36.4	Grant or Douglas MacArthur. These are men who had a tactical and strategic understanding
0:43.3	of the battlefield that changed the course of history. People understand and agree that
0:48.8	whatever you think of them, whatever side they were on at the time, these were men who were
0:55.6	excellent at their craft of warfare and who made an enormous impact on history.
1:02.2	Who is the most fearsome warrior of his age? All time. Again, I'm sure some of you have
1:10.4	answers that immediately come to mind. Leonidas, King of Sparta and famous because of the movie
1:18.0	300, perhaps for many, but known all throughout the ages. Vasily Zaitsev, the Soviet
1:25.1	sniper, US Marines, Carlos Hathcock during Vietnam, or if you want to go back a little bit in history,
1:32.5	Versa in Jeterix, the Golic Chiefed in who fought fiercely but unsuccessfully against Julius
1:38.4	Caesar also on the list. Maybe even Hernan Cortez and his campaign against the Aztecs,
1:45.6	fearsome warriors, people that you think of as not only leaders of men in battle, but also
1:52.5	excelling in the crafty tactical fighting aspect. People that were on the front lines that
2:00.8	were combatants, they weren't just in the back with the gear in the rear. And let's add one more
2:07.2	category to this impact. This would be those great men of the military in the past, whose actions
2:15.5	directly led to history changing and era defining moments, battles that changed the tide of history.
2:24.8	The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, for example,
2:29.2	Skipio Afro-Conus of Ancient Rome defeating Hannibal Barca to end the Second Punic War.
2:35.8	So we're talking about three things here. Great military leaders, skilled warriors,
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