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The Last Stand

Saturday June 23 marked the eve of the feast of St John the Baptist, the name-saint and protector of the Knights. They had succeeded in resisting the Ottoman army�s onslaught at Fort St Elmo for an entire month, yet it was obvious to all that they could not possibly hold out any longer.

The day before, the Turks had finally managed to seal off the fort and isolate the defenders from the larger and better-protected forts of St Angelo and St Michael across the Grand Harbour. Nonetheless, the soldiers within Fort St Elmo had fought bravely with all they had. Somehow, that day they endured for six hours until the Turks were obliged to retire for the night, leaving more than a thousand of their comrades dead and twice as many wounded.

But the situation in St Elmo on Saturday was desperate. Most of the defenders had been killed, and the remaining hundred survivors were scarred and wounded. There was little more they could do.

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I am first and foremost a Gemini. My feet are placed precariously in several camps and constantly and easily cross over many boundaries. My working life spanned 3 decades and embraced 3 continents. Some of my time was spent in the British Royal Navy and much of it in the International Automotive Industry. 
 An Engineer and Designer is automatically a keen observer of life and human nature and from that I take much inspiration for my art. I do not call myself just an artist but rather a purveyor, documenter and expositor of life, from which my art bleeds and sometimes gushes forth! 
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