1565: Muslims battle Christians in the bloody Siege of Malta. The conflict between the West and Islam ended when the first U.S. Marines fought pirates along “the shores of Tripoli”? Not long ago, that ...
"It remains an extraordinary story," said Mathew Lyons in Literary Review. On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later ...