Taking a look at the most spectacular flops in the history of the world. 1453: During the siege of Constantinople, the entrenched Byzantines leave a gate unlocked, allowing the invading Turks to ...
Constantine IV finally decided to settle the issue, having dealt with the 678 Muslim siege of Constantinople and desired some form of reconciliation between the Eastern and Western Churches.
📜 Siege of Vienna: Opening Bombardment - Mehmed ... Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the current Mehmed decided to target Vienna- but Emperor ...
Mehmet II launches his campaign to end the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for the Ottomans, resulting in arguably the greatest siege of that age.
By Michael Prodger, Megan Kenyon and Pippa Bailey The long conflict between Christendom and the Ottomans had any number of set pieces – the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Battle of Lepanto in ...