27 min
"Fortress of Doom" The Conquest of Constantinople Part1: Episode 25 Empires Podcast the Ottomans
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https://ottomanempirepodcast.com/
Also, this episode has a companion blogpost with maps and images and further explanations you can find it here:
https://ottomanempirepodcast.com/blog/fortress-of-doom?v=zgw4
Please check out the works of Soren Narnia (guest narrator) over at:
https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/
I'll step back and let Sultan Mehmed II "The Conquer" speak for himself and sum up Episode 25 Part 1:
"I am not depriving the City of anything. He [Constantine] controls and possesses nothing beyond his moat. If I wish to build a fortress at the Sacred Mouth, he has no right to hinder me. The entire region is under my control.
Do you not remember the distress and the danger faced by my father when the king of the Hungarians launched his expedition? They advanced by land, while the triremes of the Franks [western Europeans] sailed to the Hellespont and blockaded the straits, denying passage to my father?
Why are you trying to stop me? Am I not allowed to do as I please in my own territory? Go tell your king: the present lord does not resemble his predecessors. He will easily accomplish what they failed to achieve. He eagerly wishes to succeed in what the proved unwilling to do. I will skin alive any man who dare to talk to me of this matter in the future.”
Source: “The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453” by authors Marios Philippides and Walter K. Hanak. Please go buy yourself a copy of this magnificent work of history at:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marios-Philippides/author/B004ZFHS4M?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Check out the Website:
https://ottomanempirepodcast.com/
Also, this episode has a companion blogpost with maps and images and further explanations you can find it here:
https://ottomanempirepodcast.com/blog/fortress-of-doom?v=zgw4
Please check out the works of Soren Narnia (guest narrator) over at:
https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/
I'll step back and let Sultan Mehmed II "The Conquer" speak for himself and sum up Episode 25 Part 1:
"I am not depriving the City of anything. He [Constantine] controls and possesses nothing beyond his moat. If I wish to build a fortress at the Sacred Mouth, he has no right to hinder me. The entire region is under my control.
Do you not remember the distress and the danger faced by my father when the king of the Hungarians launched his expedition? They advanced by land, while the triremes of the Franks [western Europeans] sailed to the Hellespont and blockaded the straits, denying passage to my father?
Why are you trying to stop me? Am I not allowed to do as I please in my own territory? Go tell your king: the present lord does not resemble his predecessors. He will easily accomplish what they failed to achieve. He eagerly wishes to succeed in what the proved unwilling to do. I will skin alive any man who dare to talk to me of this matter in the future.”
Source: “The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453” by authors Marios Philippides and Walter K. Hanak. Please go buy yourself a copy of this magnificent work of history at:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marios-Philippides/author/B004ZFHS4M?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
27 min