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The nameplate, ships wheel, ensign and several other objects of Ohio are preserved in Malta's National War Museum in Valletta. [citation needed] The arrival of Ohio at the Grand Harbour provided the climax of the 1953 British war film Malta Story [36] directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins.
The siege of Malta, also known as the siege of Valletta or the French blockade (Maltese: L-Imblokk tal-Franċiżi), was a two-year siege and blockade of the French garrison in Valletta and the Three Cities, the largest settlements and main port on the Mediterranean island of Malta, between 1798 and 1800.
Allen, Bruce Ware, The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John, Hanover N.H., ForeEdge 2017 ISBN 1512601160. Bradford, Ernle (1961). The Great Siege: Malta 1565. Wordsworth edition 1999. ISBN 1-84022-206-9. Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa, London, 1968.
The Siege of Malta was broken by the Allied reconquest of Egypt and Libya after the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November) and by Operation Torch (8–16 November) in the western Mediterranean, which enabled land-based aircraft to escort merchant ships to the island.
The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War.The convoys took place during the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre. Malta was a base from which British sea and air forces could attack ships carrying supplies from Europe to Italian Libya.
Siege of Malta may refer to: Siege of Malta (1429), a siege by the Moors; Siege of Malta (1565), a siege by the Ottoman Empire against the Knights Hospitaller The Siege of Malta, an 1832 novel by Sir Walter Scott; Siege of Malta, a 1570 heroic poem about the siege by Antonios Achelis; Siege of Malta (1798–1800), a siege by the British and ...
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Victory Day (or Otto settembre) is a public holiday celebrated in Malta on 8 September [1] and recalls the end of three historical sieges made on the Maltese archipelago, namely: the Great Siege of Malta by the Ottoman Empire ending in 1565; the Siege of Valletta by the French Blockade ending in 1800; and, the Siege of Malta during the Second World War by the Axis forces ending in 1943.