In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Roger Crowley and I discuss the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453.

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Chapters:
0:00 Constantinople
3:46 Mehmed II
7:04 Comparing the armies
11:00 Weaknesses in the walls
13:00 Source criticism
17:33 The Ottoman cannons
21:55 The defenders' strategy
24:04 Mehmed takes the Golden Horn
29:21 Undermining the walls
37:14 The final assault
48:09 What if the assault had failed?
50:22 Mehmed II as a Byzantine emperor