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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

"The Great Siege Had Ended" ~ The year that September 11 brought tidings of victory

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The Flight of the Turks by Matteo Perez d' Aleccio, early 17th century. September 11 is known in our times as the date of a cowardly...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The Great Siege of Malta Begins, May 18, 1565

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 A portrait of Grand Master Jean de la Valette by Antoine Favray. Given the current tribulations of the Knights of Malta in our own time...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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