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FERDINAND VON HOMPESCH THE LAST GRANDMASTER OF THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM TO RULE IN MALTA BETWEEN 1797-1798
ON JUNE 10th 1798, FRENCH TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL NAPOLEON BONAPARTE INVADED THE ISLANDS OF MALTA, GOZO AND COMINO. NAPOLEON'S SUCCESS WOULD NOT HAVE MATERIALISED WITHOUT THE HELP OF SPIES AND TRAITORS FROM AMONGST THE KNIGHTS OF THE FRENCH LANGUE AND SOME MALTESE OPENLY IN FAVOUR OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE AUTOCRATIC RULE OF THE KNIGHTS OVER THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY IN MALTA MADE THE KNIGHTS EVER UNPOPULAR WITH THEIR SUBJECTS.
DEEPLY ANGERED BY THE RULE AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE FRENCH TROOPS IN MALTA IN SEPTERMBER 1798 THE MALTESE ROSE UP IN ARMS AGAINST THE FRENCH AND OCCUPIED THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF MDINA KILLING THE FRENCH GARRISON INSIDE IT. THE FRENCH GARRISON AT THE FORTRESS CITIES OF VALLETTA AND COTTONERA CLOSED THE DOORS OF THEIR GATES THUS BEGINNING A LENGHTY BLOCKADE WHICH WAS TO END WITH THE CAPITUALATION OF THE FRENCH TROOPS ON SEPTEMBER 5th 1800. A HORRIBLE AND BLOODY PERIOD FOR THE MALTESE NATION, THE END OF WHICH IS THE BEGINING OF THE NEW BRITSH ERA DESTINED TO LAST UP THE SEPTEMBER 21st. 1964, WHEN MALTA WAS GRANTED INDEPENDENCE.
THIS IS THE STORY OF THOSE EVENTFULL YEARS
TOPICS FEATURED
1.Grandmaster De Rohan Polduc- The Final years - Part 1.
2.Frans Sammut :1789 -The French Revolution.
3. Frans Sammut:
Grandmaster De Rohan Polduc- The Final Years-Part 2.
4. Vincent Zammit & Dr. Charles Boffa : Grandmaster Ferdinand Von Hompesch - Napoleon's showdown.
5. Frans Sammut: Malta's invasion by French Troops - Napoleon's Triumph on his way to Egypt
6.. Frans Sammut: Malta's invasion by French Troops - Napoleon's Triumph on his way to Egypt
7.Dr.Charles Boffa : The Saga of the French Occupation.
8.Dr.Charles Boffa : The Saga of the French Occupation continued & Charles Xuereb : Napoleon Bonaparte - a biographical annotation.
9.Vincent Zammit :Mikiel Anton Vassalli - A Maltese Dream.& Rev.Mgr. Lawrence Cachia : Dun Mikiel Scerri - The fate of a Maltese Patriot.
10.Dr. Carmelo Testa : The French in Malta 1798-1800 - An overview of the Social conditions - part 1.
11.Dr. Carmelo Testa : The French in Malta 1798-1800 -An overview of the Social conditions - part 2
12.Dr. Carmelo Testa : The French in Malta 1798-1800 - The Uprising.
13.Dr. Carmelo Testa : The French in Malta 1798-1800 - The Blockade
14.Dr. Carmelo Testa : The French in Malta 1798-1800 - The Capitulation & Rev. Mgr. Lawrence Cachia : The Sacking of St. John's Co-Cathedral at Valletta.
15.Stephen Florian : French sorties and Maltese resistance at Zabbar,A detailed study of the situation in Valletta & Cottonera during the Blockade - September 1798 to September 1800.
16.Stephen Florian : The Knights of Malta beyond our Shores. Giulio Renato Litta & The Russian Connection.
17.Stephen Florian : The Initiatives of Emperor Paul 1st of Russia and the Repercussions. The transition of power to Giovanni Battista Tomasi(1803)
18. Winston L.Zammit : The Maltese Congress between 1798 and 1800 - A parliament in the making.
19.Jesmond Grech : The first years of British rule in Malta - part 1.
20.Jesmond Grech : The first years of British rule in Malta - part 2.
PROGRAMME DURATION: 30 minutes
DAN IX-XOGHOL HUWA DDEDIKAT LIL DAWK IL-MALTIN KOLLHA LI TQABDU U XERRDU DEMMHOM KONTRA L-FRANCIZI 200 SENA ILU U WARA SFAW INJORATI U LI GHADHOM SAL-LUM MINGHAJR RIKONOXXIMENT - SABIEX QATT MA JINTESEW -----
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE MALTESE CITIZENS WHO FOUGHT AND SHED THEIR BLOOD AGAINST THE FRENCH 200 YEARS AGO, AND WHO WERE LATER BURRIED IN NEGLECT LACKING ANY SIGN OF RECOGNITION TO THIS VERY DAY - MAY THEIR MEMORY BE ETERNAL
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