The French invasion of Malta was the successful invasion of the islands of Malta and Gozo, then ruled by the Order of St. John, by the French First Republic led by Napoleon Bonaparte in June 1798 as part of the Mediterranean campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Letter dated 19 April 1798 written by Napoleon instructing General Louis Desaix to set sail from Civitavecchia and meet up with him at Malta
Painting of Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim, the last Grand Master to rule Malta
Fort Rohan, which fell to the French after some resistance
The Sopu Tower, which was located close to the landing site and offered some resistance to the invasion
Hospitaller Malta, officially the Monastic State of the Order of Malta, and known within Maltese history as the Knights' Period, was a polity which existed between 1530 and 1798 when the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo were ruled by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. It was formally a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily, and it came into being when Emperor Charles V granted the islands as well as the city of Tripoli in modern Libya to the Order, following the latter's loss of Rhodes in 1522. Hospitaller Tripoli was lost to the Ottoman Empire in 1551, but an Ottoman attempt to take Malta in 1565 failed.
Re-enactment of military drills of the Knights at Fort Saint Elmo in 2005.
View of Fort Saint Angelo.
Wignacourt Aqueduct at Birkirkara
Wignacourt Tower, the oldest surviving watchtower in Malta.