Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1453
Siege of Constantinople Begins
April 6, 1453
Mehmed II's army of eighty thousand ringed the land walls while his fleet blocked the Golden Horn. Urban's monster cannon, twenty-seven feet long, began pounding the Theodosian triple walls. Inside the city, fewer than eight thousand defenders manned fourteen miles of ramparts. Byzantine emperor Constantine XI refused all offers of surrender.
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- Fall of Constantinople · Middle East · War
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.