The Knights Hospitaller are introduced as an order whose power quickly became strongly maritime. The discussion connects that role with slavery and the projection of naval power, without developing those subjects in detail here. It offers their treatment of Protestant English sailors as an example of valuing skilled seamen across religious divisions. Practical seamanship could therefore complicate expectations based solely on the order's Catholic identity.
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The Hospitallers as a naval power
The Hospitallers' need for skilled sailors is used to explain cooperation across religious divisions.