Siege of Malta
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Siege of Malta may refer to:
  • The Siege of Malta (1565)
    Siege of Malta (1565)
    The Siege of Malta took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the Knights Hospitaller .The Knights, together with between 4-5,000 Maltese men,...

    , in which the Ottoman Empire failed to dislodge the Knights Hospitaller
    • Siege of Malta, 1570 work of the Cretan writer Antonios Achelis, about the above
  • The Siege of Malta (1798) by the French, an episode of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria
  • The Siege of Malta (1798–1800)
    Siege of Malta (1798–1800)
    The Siege of Malta was a two-year siege and blockade of the French garrison in Valletta, the largest city and main port on the Mediterranean island of Malta between 1798 and 1800. Valletta had been captured by a French expeditionary force during the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, and garrisoned...

    , in which a combined British, Maltese, Portuguese and Neapolitan force defeated a French garrison
  • The Siege of Malta (World War II), by the Axis powers, failed to break British control of the island

See also

  • Battle of Malta
    Battle of Malta
    The Battle of Malta took place on 8 July 1283 in the entrance to the Grand Harbour, the principal harbor of Malta, when a galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a fleet of Angevin galleys commanded by William Cornut and Bartholomew Bonvin...

     (8 July 1283) near Malta
  • Battle of the Malta Convoy (1800)
    Battle of the Malta Convoy (1800)
    The Battle of the Malta Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 18 February 1800 during the Siege of Malta. The French garrison at the city of Valletta in Malta had been under siege for eighteen months, blockaded on the landward side by a combined force of British,...

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