The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights by John C Carr PDF

By John C Carr

ISBN-10: 1473858887

ISBN-13: 9781473858886

The Knights of St John advanced throughout the Crusades from a monastic order delivering hostels for Christian pilgrims vacationing the Holy Land. the necessity to supply armed escorts to the pilgrims all started their transformation right into a army Order. Their fervour and self-discipline made them an elite portion of so much Crusader armies and Hospitaller Knights (as they have been additionally identified) took half in many of the significant engagements, together with Hattin, Acre and Arsuf.
After the Muslims had reconquered the Crusader Kingdoms, the Order endured to struggle from a brand new base, first in Rhodes after which in Malta. Taking to the ocean, the Hospitallers grew to become one of many significant naval powers within the Mediterranean, protecting Christian transport from the Barbary Pirates (and more and more turning to piracy themselves as investment from their estates in Europe dried up). They supplied an important bulwark opposed to Islamic enlargement within the Mediterranean, obstinately resisting a big siege of Malta via the Ottoman Turks in 1565. The Order remained an important energy within the Mediterranean until eventually their defeat through Napoleon in 1798.

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