V2nd, C3
Monte Davis
montedavis at verizon.net
Sun Jul 18 10:19:54 CDT 2010
Michael Bailey sez:
> I have no feel for this place [Malta]. It never makes the news... you
would think a nice small country without a bunch of armies and stuff would
be all peaceful...
Not when the Knights Hospitaller (aka of St. John) held it as a naval
stronghold against the Ottoman Turks, nor when the French and then British
seized it during the Napoleonic wars, nor (of course) when the Germans and
Italians bombed the hell out of it in WWII. Valletta harbor has long been a
good place from which to mess with (or support) Mediterranean commerce and
naval activity.
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