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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52803| Title: | Call for restoration of De Guiral's battery |
| Authors: | Pace Ross, Jose |
| Keywords: | Fort Saint Angelo (Vittoriosa, Malta) Fortification -- Malta -- Vittoriosa -- History Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Vittoriosa (Malta) -- History -- 16th century Siege, 1565 Fortification -- Conservation and restoration -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2019-08-23 |
| Publisher: | Allied Newspapers Limited |
| Citation: | Pace Ross, J. (2019, August 23). Call for restoration of De Guiral's battery, Times of Malta, pp. 8. |
| Abstract: | De Guiral's battery is situated on the extreme right of Fort St Angelo when one looks at the fort from the Valletta side. On July 15, 1565, Mustapha Pasha, in command of the Turkish Army besieging Malta, launched a massive attack by land and sea on the walled western side of the Senglea peninsula. The battery was under the command of the French knight Francisco (François) de Guiral, hence its name. Today, it is an empty space enclosed by two plain walls at right angles to each other filled with flattened soil, stones and shrubs. According to the author of the article, it needs restoration. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/52803 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCMSMA |
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