Battle of Malta
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The <entity_1> took place on <entity_3> in the entrance to the <entity_2>, the principal harbour of <entity_7>, as part of the War of the <entity_0>. An <entity_4> fleet of galleys, commanded by Roger of Lauria, attacked and defeated a fleet of <entity_5> galleys commanded by Guillaume Cornut and Bartholomé Bonvin. The <entity_5> ships arrived in <entity_7> first, and proceeded to relieve the <entity_5> garrison, which was besieged within the walls of the Castello del Mare. Upon providing relief to the <entity_5> soldiers besieged in <entity_7>, Cornut was then ordered to "seek Roger of Lauria, who had not more than eighteen galleys, for the King of Aragon had not ordered more than twenty-two to be fitted out, and of these he had taken four to Catalonia, and so there did not remain more than eighteen." Roger of Lauria soon learned all the <entity_5> plans regarding <entity_7>. After resting overnight, the <entity_4> fleet set sail for the south east coast of Sicily, rather than head for <entity_7> directly. The fleets met in the middle of <entity_2>, in an "attack so vigorous, that the prow of every galley was shattered, and the <entity_6> was most cruel and fierce." The Catalans' marksmanship, particularly their almogavars and their crossbowmen carried the <entity_6> for the <entity_4>. Once the <entity_5> galleys were grappled, the almogavars boarded the enemy ships, with the exhausted and heavily armoured French knights being no match for the agile <entity_4> infantry. The <entity_4> captured the remaining <entity_5> galleys, with one of the lighter <entity_5> scouting ships managing to put out to sea and escape. At once, the <entity_4> sent an armed barge to Syracuse, to make their victory known, while ten captured <entity_5> galleys were added to the fleet. The <entity_4> admiral gave up the King's share and his own right to the booty won by his soldiers, declaring the galleys and the <entity_5> prisoners to be enough. Muntaner asserts that after sharing the victory in <entity_7>, the <entity_4> and the Sicilians united themselves in the "bonds of friendship...which is an incontestable proof of good government." The crushing defeat forced the postponement of <entity_5> plans to invade Sicily, established <entity_4> naval tactic superiority and set the scene for the Battle of the Gulf of Naples in 1284.
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