The Fall of Constantinople Episode 9 "The Attack on the Golden Horn"

Byzantium And The Crusades - A podcast by Nick Holmes

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Constantinople was probably the best fortified city in the medieval world. But it had one weak spot. To the north of the city lay the Golden Horn, the wide estuary that was blocked to enemy ships by a great iron chain. The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II pondered long and hard how to break into the Golden Horn. Then he came up with an extraordinary idea.