Title: Malta, Britain, and the European powers, 1793-1815 /
Authors: Gregory, Desmond, 1916-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Malta Influence.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Influence.; Malta Foreign relations Great Britain.; Great Britain Foreign relations Malta.; Malta Dependency on foreign countries.; Malta Economic conditions.
Abstract: This book describes how the island of Malta became a protectorate of the British Crown during the wars against Napoleon after the failures of the Knights of Saint John, republican France, the Two Sicilies, and finally imperial Russia to fill the role of its best defender. Author Desmond Gregory also explains why most, though not all, Maltese people welcomed the protection of Britain, the supreme naval power in the Mediterranean after the battle of Aboukir Bay.
Contents: 1. Malta and Its People in 1800 -- 2. The Order of Knights in 1798 -- 3. The French Connection -- 4. British Policy toward Malta, 1793-1801 -- 5. The Siege of Valletta -- 6. The Neapolitan/Sicilian Interest -- 7. The Russian Involvement -- 8. The Treaty of Amiens -- Clause Ten -- 9. Interim Government, September 1800 to June 1803 -- 10. The Ball Administration and Its Critics -- 11. The Oakes Administration and the Royal Commission -- 12. Malta Becomes a British Colony -- 13. Corn, Cattle, and Barbary -- 14. Malta As a Great Commercial Center -- 15. The Economy and the Revenues of Malta -- 16. Hospitals, Quarantine, and the Plague -- 17. Britain and the Catholic Church in Malta -- 18. Malta As a British Naval Base -- 19. Malta As a Military Post -- 20. Conclusion: The Price of Protection -- Appendix A: Lampedusa -- Appendix B: Chronological Table -- Appendix C: The Grand Masters of the Order of Saint John.