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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/89318| Title: | French military architecture in the Maltese Islands |
| Authors: | Spiteri, Stephen C. |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- French occupation, 1798-1800 Fortification -- Malta -- History Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Knights of Malta -- Malta -- History Order of St John -- Malta -- History La Vallette, Jean Parisot, 1494-1568 Knights of Malta. Grand Masters Order of St John. Grand Masters Military architecture -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | MilitaryArchitecture.com |
| Citation: | Spiteri, S. C. (2008). French military architecture in the Maltese Islands. ARX – Online Journal of Military Architecture, 5, 2-3. |
| Abstract: | When Napoleon Bonaparte entered Valletta on the 12th of June 1798, he is said to have been astonished by the 'power of resistance' of the vast system of fortifications which had fallen to him so easily with hardly a shot being fired and was thankful that the knights no longer hand men of the calibre of Jean de Vallette to defend it. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/89318 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacBenHA |
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