Alexander Ball
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Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the civil commissioner of Malta from 1799 to 1801 and again from 1802 to 1809. He wa
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1805–1809
Inscription from a former early 19th-century garden in Żabbar making reference to Ball
Monument to Sir Alexander Ball in the Lower Barrakka Gardens
Malta
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Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country located in the central Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago which is 80 km south of Italy, 284 km east of Tunisia, and 333 km
Alexander Ball
…Ball Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1805–1809 Born 22 July 1757 Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire Died 25 October 1809 (aged 52) San Anton Palace, Malta Allegiance Great Britain United Kingdom Branch Royal Navy Service years 1778–1809 Rank Rear-Admiral of the Red Conflicts American Revolutionary War…
Ġgantija, a megalithic temple complex
Roman mosaic from the Domvs Romana
Roger I of Sicily returned Malta to Christian rule.
Ottoman attack on the post of the Castilian knights on 21 August 1565