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  1. Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford _ The Great Siege: Malta 1565

    There were about 12,000 inhabitants in Malta, most of them poor peasants speaking a kind of Arabic dialect.
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  2. Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford _ The Great Siege: Malta 1565

    It was they who had given the island the name Maleth, 'A Haven', which was later corrupted by the Greeks into Melita {'Honey'} from which the modern name of Malta derives.
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  3. Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford _ The Great Siege: Malta 1565

    In that century, a man adventuring by sea in the Mediterranean was likely to find the wheel of fortune turn full circle in a matter of a few hours. Dragut, greatest of all the corsairs after Barbarossa, saw La Valette when he was a galley slave and secured for him slightly more favourable conditions. Eight years later, when Dragut himself was captured by the Genoese admiral Giannettino Doria, Valette happened to be present. He sympathized with the corsair's anger and remarked: 'Monsieur Dragut-it is the custom of war.' To which Dragut wryly replied, 'And change of Fortune.' Valette's own captor, Kust-Aly, was in turn taken by La Valette, then chief admiral of the Order's fleet, in 1554, and sent to the oars along with twenty-two other prisoners.
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