I'll make this a brief as I can, my username is after Jean Parisot de La Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller on the island of Malta in the year 1565. He fought and successfully repulsed the Turks at the Great Siege of Malta (1565), in which the vastly outnumbered Christians (700 knights and a few thousand men-at-arms) held out for over 3 months against an Ottoman force containing no less than 30,000 soldiers, including the notorious Janissaries, as well as the Sultan's prized fleet of some 40 warships. The desperate battle, which saw the reduction of Fort St. Elmo, was one of immense brutality, and is regarded as one the most famous and desperate sieges of all time.
Basically I used it because I WILL overcome the odds and beat the booze!