Mehmed launches an ambitious siege to break through the walls of Constantinople, but Giustiniani's mercenaries manage to forestall the Janissaries. Mehmed's men dig underground tunnels in an attempt ...

Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, which definitively ended the Byzantine Empire, ...

Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...

The destruction of the Byzantine Empire and its dramatic collapse under the weight of Mehmed the Conquerer’s spectacular invasion is not necessarily the first or only catastrophe staining the history ...

Continually my computer suffers virus attacks. Constantly my virus software defeats them. This seems to be a very common circumstance. However, it is an axiom of the horror that is war, that a good ...