Tell me a bedtime story about the Liberation of Istanbul from

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>>1821288
Once there was an ugly Ottoman.
He was so ugly that everyone died.
The end.

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>>1821325
I don't like your story!

>>1821338
:(

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>>1821288
The Orthodox are NICE PEOPLE, YOU UNDERSTAND TURK BOI

>>1821325
>Implying that all the ottomans are not ugly

>>1821288
>Preparations for the final assault were started in the evening of 26 May and continued to the next day.[78] For 36 hours after the war council decision to attack, the Ottomans extensively mobilized their manpower in order to prepare for the general offensive.[78]

>Shortly after midnight on May 29 the all-out offensive began. The Christian troops of the Ottoman Empire attacked first, followed by the successive waves of the irregular azaps, who were poorly trained and equipped, and Anatolians who focused on a section of the Blachernae walls in the northwest part of the city, which had been damaged by the cannon. This section of the walls had been built earlier, in the eleventh century, and was much weaker.

>The Anatolians managed to breach this section of walls and entered the city but were just as quickly pushed back by the defenders. Finally, as the battle was continuing, the last wave, consisting of elite Janissaries, attacked the city walls. The Genoese general in charge of the land troops,[3][54][55] Giovanni Giustiniani, was grievously wounded during the attack, and his evacuation from the ramparts caused a panic in the ranks of the defenders.[81] Giustiniani was carried to Chios, where he succumbed to his wounds a few days later.

>With Giustiniani's Genoese troops retreating into the city and towards the harbor, Constantine and his men, now left to their own devices, kept fighting and managed to successfully hold off the Janissaries for a while, but eventually they could not stop them from entering the city. The defenders were also being overwhelmed at several points in Constantine's section. When Turkish flags were seen flying above a small postern gate, the Kerkoporta, which was left open, panic ensued, and the defense collapsed, as Janissary soldiers, led by Ulubatlı Hasan pressed forward.

>>1821774

>It is said that Constantine, throwing aside his purple regalia, led the final charge against the incoming Ottomans, perishing in the ensuing battle in the streets just like his soldiers. On the other hand, Nicolò Barbaro, a Venetian eyewitness to the siege, wrote in his diary that it was said that Constantine hanged himself at the moment when the Turks broke in at the San Romano gate.

>Mehmed II had promised to his soldiers three days to plunder the city, to which they were entitled.[83][84] Soldiers fought over the possession of some of the spoils of war.[85] According to the Venetian surgeon Nicolò Barbaro "all through the day the Turks made a great slaughter of Christians through the city". According to Philip Mansel, thousands of civilians were killed and 30,000 civilians were enslaved or deported; Christians floating in the sea "like melons along a canal".[52]

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>>1821774
>>1821781
wow, Turks really were righteous and just in the liberation and treated the captured corrupt christians with respect

İyi geceler

>>1821794
Tsargrad will be ours

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>Orthodox Christians are given 4 out of 5 of the cities of the pentarchy
>End up losing each and every one

Mehmed knew he must strike again before the attack faltered. Now, if ever, his paid soldiers needed to earn their keep. Riding forward on his horse, he urged his troops to prove themselves as heroes. Clear orders were issued and Mehmed himself personally led the men at a steady pace to the edge of the ditch. It was still an hour to sunrise, but the stars were fading and "the blackness of the night was drawing towards dawn"

They stopped at the ditch. Then he ordered "bowmen, slingers and rifle men to stand at a distance and shoot to the right at those defending the stockade and battered outer wall" A firestorm swept towards the walls: "there were so many culverins and arrows being fired that it was impossible to see the sky"

The defenders were forced to duck beneath the stockade under the "rain of arrows and other projectiles falling like snowflakes" At another signal the infantry advanced with "a loud and terrifying war cry" "not like Turks but like lions" They pressed toward the stockade propelled on a huge wall of sound, the ultimate psychological weapon of Ottoman armies, so loud that it could be heard on the Asian shore, five miles from their camp. The sound of drums and pipes, the shouts and exhortations of their officers, the thunderous roll of the cannon and the piercing cries of men themselves calculated both to liberate their adrenaline and to shatter the nerve of the enemy -- all had their desired effect.

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>>1821854
...amazing.

>>1821826
It was a pretty good idea at the time considering that the Western half got completely rekt. You can't really blame Diocletian for not anticipating the Muslim invasion.

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>>1821766

>>1822115
my favoutire poster