Download or read book The Illustrious Order of Hospitalers and Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Classic Reprint) written by John Corson Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illustrious Order of Hospitalers and Knights of St. John of Jerusalem In selecting the three grand masters of the Hospitalers, who. For their ability to organize and command in battle. To assault or defend a fortress or city, or rule and govern so mixed a body of men of so many languages as constituted The Illustrious Knights of St. John, of Palestine, Rhodes, and Malta, from their organiza tion 1100 a.d. To 1798 a.d., and particularly the three to whom in our judgment the honor belongs for much of the glory which at taches to the Order of the Knights of Malta. We cannot be far wrong when we name Raymond du Puy, Philip Villiers de L Isle Adam, and John de la Valette. It is not our intention to enter into any discussion of the merits of the two great orders of knighthood which had their origin in, and did such valiant fighting for the possession of the Holy Land, much as we believe the Order of the Hospitalers. The Illustrious Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, better known as the Knights of Malta to have been the older and greater, as it certainly was the longer in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.