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where his command was defeated on 7 November. Bonaparte arrived to stabilize the situation but the French army commander left
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and nuns who were not native of Malta, and plundered the churches of gold and silver artifacts and paintings. The plundering of their churches outraged the staunchly pious
Maltese. Furthermore, French draining of most of the cash of the
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