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Murder and Mayhem In the Name of God: A Novelist Reimagines the Crusades; Deus Lo Volt!; Chronicle of the Crusades
; ...attacks against the Hospitalers and the Flemings and...Christian left flank. The knights held their ground and...this devil's pack the Hospitalers marched backward and...Whereas Runciman's Hospitalers "hold their ground...
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Charting the Great Siege of Malta: Melita nunc Malta (1565).(Map Of The Month)(Brief Article)
; ...the Hapsburg Emperor Charles V to the Knights Hospitalers of St John of Jerusalem in 1530. Over...laid siege to the island. About 500 knights and 8,000 militia faced 320 Turkish...Notably different from Nelli's map, the knights batteries are shown here still firing...
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Last nights of the Templars; COVENTRY: THE MAKING OF A CITY.(Features)
; FINALLY, the order of the Knights Templar, owners of land in Coventry and around the county...disagreement with Coombe over grazing land. This order of knights, who made vows of poverty, were formed to protect pilgrims...torture and execution and in 1314 the Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned at ...
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A castle in the air
; ...and the Knights of the Hospitalers knew a good...Jordan. The Hospitalers bought the...which their knights could control...the local Hospitalers, living quarters for the knights and a limestone...chapel. The Hospitalers built the...
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U-knighted we can preserve history
; ...a church dedicated to St Ninian. The Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John, otherwise known as Knights Hospitaler, built the preceptory as a...hospital for the treatment of locals and knights. Accommodation was provided for the abbot...
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Syria takes pride in its `biggest and best' castle Crac, once admired by T.E. Lawrence, now draws up to 130,000 visitors a year
; ...Crac bustling with the 4,000 soldiers and 400 mounted knights from England, France, Germany and Italy who held it eight...with something of the high-minded fervor that led the knights to inscribe their meeting hall with the Latin motto...qualities." Rain stored in 21 cisterns kept the castle's knights, ...
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A CASTLE STANDS SENTINEL OVER 1,000-YEAR HISTORY.(Getaways)
; ...Crac bustling with the 4,000 soldiers and 400 mounted knights from England, France, Germany and Italy who held it eight...with something of the high-minded fervor that led the knights to inscribe their meeting hall with the Latin motto...qualities.'' Rain stored in 21 cisterns kept the castle's knights, ...
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Elements of a Travel Safety Program
; ...claim his throne, he was warned that "the road was infested with robbers" (Bulfinch 151). The Templars, Hospitalers and Teutonic Knights were only a few of the orders created to protect pilgrims on their treks to the Holy Land. A more modern...
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A pivotal role envisaged on EU's southern flank
; ...in the 16th century, Malta was the headquarters of the Hospitalers or Knights of Malta, who repelled the Ottoman Turks in a battle in...Jean Parisot de la Valette, grand master of the order of Hospitalers. More recently, the British ruled Malta for a century and...
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M. Mara de Bninska Countess and socialite; at 96
; ...part of New York's high society. The countess was a Dame Grand Cross in the Sovereign Order of St. John Hospitalers of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. She leaves a son, Victor Schuppe of Detroit, three grandchildren and several great-grandchildren...
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