Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.

Having been governed by many different countries in the past, the Maltese population carry linguistic imprints from many places.

Today, 66% of the Maltese population can speak Italian, and 2% of the population "prefers" to use it in day to day conversation.

Only 35.75% of the Maltese population preferred to read books in Maltese, and 22.65% of them preferred it for magazines.

Vatican data for 2006 show that 93.89% of the Maltese population is Roman Catholic, making the nation one of the most Catholic countries in the world.

An estimated fifty per cent of the Maltese population watched those broadcasts and the Nationalists won 50.7 per cent of the votes.

The rebellion of the Maltese and Gozitan populations of 1425-1428 is well known in Malta although it was not the first.

Sir Alexander Ball was possibly the British leader most loved by the Maltese population.

Church property was looted and seized to pay for the expedition to Egypt, an act that generated considerable anger among the deeply religious Maltese population.

It commemorates events which occurred on that day in 1919 when, following a series of riots by the Maltese population, British troops fired into the crowd, killing four.