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The sleepy waves of the sea were conciliated and it was like that most of the time in the island of Malta. This island was founded by warriors, by divine crusades, who’s crusades fought with an eagle gaze and a flaming spirit, these men of faith stablish the state of Malta in which I’m standing right now, I am a knight of the order of Hospitallers we fight and threat the injured knights, but we, the order of Hospitallers are the only ones left protecting this island, and today that autonomous that the past crusaded left us is put to a challenge. “We got new” the general Garnier said, “And they’re not good news,,,, the Ottomans have been spotted and they are coming to the island” as those words came my eyes opened, “So we are going to get prepared to defend and repeal the assault, so get quickly to positions now” said General Garnier, in less than five minutes I arrived to my position, which is the role of operating a canon alongside another fellow teammate, as I got there the other knight who also operates the cannon said to me “Are you ready, we more likely are not going to survive this, but yet I seen most of the other not a single resemblance to fear” I said to him “In these moments our faith is stronger than ever and our connection with each other as well….” Then he said “Yea, I am ready for the Ottomans, and you?” I replied “Yes, I don’t feel fear” Then we waited the arrival of the Ottoman Army, after 5 minutes we start seeing them, far away, but not close enough to engage, even with canons, other 5 minutes passed and General Garnier said “When I give the order all canons fire, understand?” we all replied with a “Yes, sir”, and couple of minutes passed and the Ottoman army got way more closer until, it started, “Fire!” and just like that we starting firing the canons and loading another projectile and firing again, the Ottoman Army advanced and responded back with canon fire aswell, until the unexpected happened, “BAM!” and pitch black my sight went I started think “Am I death? Did a Ottoman projectile hit me?, well… after all they are better equipped and on top of that we are heavily outnumbered “ I did in fact thought that the Ottomans are easily going to defeat us, but as soon as that thought came I started to see light, “Lest go we have a chance, do not let your gaze down!” I heard General Garnier shout to other knights I suppose, and that’s when I noticed that I am still alive, I moved and looked at my hands and legs, it all seems intact, so I got up and looked at the sky and say a banner with a cross on it, I ran to it, and when I got there I saw other knights celebrating, “What happened?” I asked, a knight answered “ They, the Ottomans, fled we won we defended the island” I then respond “So we indeed managed to extricate this situation” and that’s when I realized that the odds of wining where close to zero but still we came victorious, and that no doubt this battle will ascend to history.
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I really like history and the crusades, also I rush the story so it could actually be better.