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Malta, Lepanto, and the End of an Era

Tides of History

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Introduction

The galleys captain knew this wind well. He had known it all his life. The Skidoku, they had called it in his fishing village south of Naples. When the rain came with it, the droplets were tinged with red. Sand from the Sahara Desert he knew now, but in his childhood it seemed like magic. Not good magic, mind you, but the kind of dark magic that drove corsairs north to steal captives from Italy.

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