St. Elmo’s Pay (1565 AD)

460 years ago The Great Siege of Malta (1565). A tragic, & heroic feat by The Knights of Malta was focused on Fort St. Elmo. Out of that tragedy the term “St. Elmo’s Pay” was forged as a brutal retribution, for the defenders’ last stand. @40,000 Ottoman troops against @700 Knights & @6,000 civilians. Good read about the Siege: The Great Siege: Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford.