The Great Siege of Malta 1565 PDF Ernle Bradford

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On the face of it the gift was highly acceptable, for the Knights had been homeless since their expulsion from Rhodes eight years before. The annual presentation of a falcon to the Viceroy of Sicily, and a guarantee that they would never make war upon his Kingdom was all that was required of the Knights in return.

Charles V was not magnanimous by nature, and the aged Grand Master Villiers de l’Isle Adam may well have murmured ‘Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes’ when he saw that, along with the gift of the Maltese islands, went that of the seaport of Tripoli in North Africa. Tripoli, a Christian outpost in the middle of the hostile Moslem states on the notorious Barbary Coast, was a gift that Charles V could well afford to make. De l’Isle Adam was right to hesitate when he saw it in the Emperor’s rescript. He had yet further grounds for hesitation when the report of the commission, whom he had sent to investigate

• Book Name: The Great Siege of Malta 1565 pdf
• Author Name Ernle Bradford
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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