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The Axis plan to invade Malta had its origin in Italian military studies conducted during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in the mid-1930s. By 1938, Comando Supremo, the Italian army general staff, had estimated the amount of sea transport it would require to move military forces into North Africa, and identified the seizure of Malta as a prerequisite.
The siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre.From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of the British Crown Colony of Malta pitted the air and naval forces of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy.
French invasion of Malta part of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798: Order of Saint John: French Republic: French victory French occupation (1798–1800) Dates
The Allies launched their invasion of Sicily from Malta in 1943. After the Cassibile armistice in the same year, the Italian Fleet surrendered to the Allies in Malta. In 1945, Churchill and Roosevelt met in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference with Joseph Stalin .
Malta returned to Christian rule with the Norman conquest. It was, with Noto on the southern tip of Sicily, the last Arab stronghold in the region to be retaken by the resurgent Christians. [22] In 1091, Count Roger I of Sicily, invaded Malta and turned the island's Muslim rulers into his
Malta enters into a Military Base Agreement with the United Kingdom and other NATO countries. 16 May: Malta adopts the Maltese pound. 1973: Malta decriminalises homosexuality. 1974: 13 December: Malta becomes a Republic, with the last Governor-General, Sir Anthony Mamo, serving as its first President. Malta remains a member of the Commonwealth ...
The French invasion of Malta (Maltese: Invażjoni Franċiża ta' Malta, French: Débarquement Français à Malte) was the successful invasion of the islands of Malta and Gozo, then ruled by the Order of St. John, by the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte in June 1798 as part of the Mediterranean campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.
French invasion of Malta; G. Invasion of Gozo (1551) Great Siege of Malta; H. Operation Herkules; M. Siege of Malta (1429) Siege of Medina (1053–1054) Siege of ...