Dan Snow
speaker
15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then they're kicked out of Rhodes as well by the Ottomans.
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So the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Spain is such a powerful man.
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Is Malta his to give?
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Yes,
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it.
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We've got to put some roots down somewhere.
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And Malta at the time was a frontier, right?
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Because North Africa is Islamic.
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There's North African piracy attacking the coast of Europe and enslaving Europe.
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Were they busy here the minute they arrived?
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on the horizon.
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So there are these fingers, these peninsulas that stick into the harbour and on the tip of each one, the order of the knights, they build a fort on the tip of each one.
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That's where we are now.
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And that's another sort of promontory that comes out.
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Yes.
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So you've got to go one, you've just got to attack them and take them one after the other.
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I cannot overstate for people who are listening to this just how powerful this fortification is.
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I mean, massive ramps leading up to huge walls, really, really high, incredibly thick, just brilliantly set up for defence.
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How much of what we're sitting now dates back to that period of...
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More Renaissance, so less the sort of medieval tall castle, more these sloping walls, diamond staff shaped fortifications, so designed for artillery as well as... Yes, yes,
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