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Group: Jewish Agency for Palestine
People: Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah
Topic: Tripoli, Siege of
Location: Pereyaslavets Tulcea Romania

Tripoli, Siege of

Years: 1551 - 1551

The Siege of Tripoli occurs in 1551 when the Ottomans besiege and vanquish the Knights of Malta in the fortress of Tripoli, modern Libya.

The Spanish had established a fort in Tripoli in 1510, and Charles V had remitted it to the Knights in 1530.

The siege culminates in a six-day bombardment and the surrender of the city onAugust 15.

The siege of Tripoli succeeds an earlier attack on Malta in July, which is repelled, and the successful invasion of Gozo, in which five thousand Christians captives were taken and brought on galleys to the location of Tripoli.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)