Clse Quarter Combat Canvas Print

Close Quarter Combat

After days of bombardment, the Turks unleashed a major assault on Senglea at noon on Thursday, August 2. Wave after wave of Turkish troops came to the attack and soon the weight of their numbers began to tell on the defenders.

After five hours of heavy fighting, more than twenty Turks reached the top of the post of Colonel Robles. Reinforcements had to be called in to plug the exposed positions. In the end, a determined counterattack led by Colonel Robles himself managed to dislodge the Turks from the ramparts and forced them to retreat.

In the close-quarter combat that eventually decided the fate of many of the assaults and skirmishes, most men were dispatched by cold steel. Balbi�s account continually makes references to fighting with swords and shields, and to swords �stained with blood� up to their hilts.

The common side arm was the spada, an early type of rapier carried by both knights and soldiers alik...

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