During the Siege of Malta in 1565 the Turks stormed and after a 10 day brutal fight took the thickly walled castle of St. Elmo. There were few defenders left alive, those that were, were executed and the Knights of St. John decapitated. Their headless corpses were thrown into the harbor so their bodies floated across to the Order's other castles at Michael and Angelo.
In response the Grand Master of the Order of St. John the Baptist had all his Turkish captors decapitated and their heads he ordered loaded into canon and fired across the harbor ant the Turks. The rain of charred flesh, boiled blood, chunks of bones and other visceral gore spattered the Turkish lines driving them to madness.
The Grand Master Jean la Valette
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