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When the Turkish invasion force arrived on Rhodes on 26 June 1522, the defenders may have numbered about 500 knights and another 3-5,000 soldiers and armed locals.

Eric Brockman author of the "The two sieges of rhodes 1480 and 1522" puts this figure at 2,000 to 2,500 men fighting for the Knights of St. John.

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Could someone please update the numbers and the causalties!? It was impossible for the Ottoman army to gather such forces during that time, and it is completely impossible that they suffered such causalties during the war.

120,000 warriors including janissaries and 60,000 slaves?! What the heck "slaves" means? Everybody in the Ottoman Army was the servant of the Sultan. I didn't hear anything about slaves in the imperial army, at least like a slave army of ancient Persian Empire. Also, what do you think the Ottoman Empire was? Nearly two hundred thousand men to capture an island! Even the army that surrounded the city of Vienna was consisted of 100,000 to 120,000 troops. There are two possible answers. First one is that Rhodes is way more important than Vienna or Constantinople. The second answer is that the author of the article is, how can I say, a funny guy. Deliogul 19:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

The janissaries where in fact a kind of slaves,children robbed from there parents and pressed into military slave-a-like service in the ottoman armys. The ottoman empire was depended on slave working and slavery first stopped when ottoman empire fell apart.It is funny to observe how turkish people have a history perception which completely differs from others view.The movie Fatherland is a good clue of why it is so.

With regards to "The End" section:

However shortly after the Knights`departure there started bloody hostilities of the armless civilians.The Greeks and rest of Latins were expeled from the Castle town which was newly inhabited by the Turkish and the Jews.

I found no sources to support the fact that Jews were resettled in the Castle town, however another wikipedia articles that quotes sources states that :

plague in 1498–1500, the Knights Hospitaller, who ruled the island at that time, expelled those of the remaining Jews who would not be baptized. In the next two decades, the Hospitallers brought to the island between 2,000 and 3,000 captured Jews who were kept as slaves to work on fortifications.

From "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_blood_libel"

I think including this information in the article would present a more balanced picture of the Jews' involvement.

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