Talk:Siege of Rhodes (1522)

message: With regards to "The End" section:
However shortly after the Knights`departure there started bloody hostilities of the armless civilians.The Greeks and rest of Latins were expeled from the Castle town which was newly inhabited by the Turkish and the Jews.
I found no sources to support the fact that Jews were resettled in the Castle town, however another wikipedia articles that quotes sources states that :
plague in 1498–1500, the Knights Hospitaller, who ruled the island at that time, expelled those of the remaining Jews who would not be baptized. In the next two decades, the Hospitallers brought to the island between 2,000 and 3,000 captured Jews who were kept as slaves to work on fortifications.
From "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_blood_libel"
I think including this information in the article would present a more balanced picture of the Jews' involvement.
89.139.81.99 (talk) 21:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish involvement

message: The new number of 200,000 has again been inserted. This is not justified by the text. And was done over the previous footnote! Where did this quantity come from? Why does it keep appearing? Supplying 100,000 people besiging and island must be tough enough, but 200,000? In those days, soldiers were supposed to forage for themselves. When you have a large number in so small an area, this does not seem credible. Nor does it seem credible that the force could have held out against such an army. They could have just stood on each others backs to get into the fortress!   :) Student7 (talk) 23:32, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers (again)

message: Since the siege had ended with the conquest of Rhodes, shouldn't the article be called Conquest of Rhodes?Ertly (talk) 12:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --E4024 (talk) 08:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. -78.171.140.252 (talk) 11:07, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siege or conquest? 

message: The brevity of this story does not present a true impression of what happened. 
The full story can be found here
Original French
"Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem" By René Aubert “de” Vertot
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ueVlAAAAcAAJ&pg=418
Translation to English
"The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem"
By Vertot (abbé de)
https://books.google.ca/books?id=acINAAAAQAAJ&pg=165
"Greate Events described by distinguished historians, chroniclers, and other writers"  collected by Francis Lieber
https://books.google.ca/books?id=sXw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158
"Histoire des chevaliers de Malte"
Barbou frères, 1842 
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BXcOAAAAQAAJ
I would add details but I am tired of invisible people deleting the time and effort I put into improving articles. 104.158.48.195 (talk) 19:55, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best sources 

message: Hey i am no wikipedia editor. I just read this article and wanted to verify some numbers  (they looked of) and find out if those books are interesting since i am quite interested in the period. I controlled two different sources and the information written in the infobox didnt match the information that the cited sources revealed.1 number of men 50k cited source actualy writes 180k. 2 number of men 70k cited source actualy writes 100k. Wont wikipedia bann these people making false edits? How is this allowed to continue?  AalRK (talk) 15:07, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone writing false information!