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On 29 May 1453, after weeks of siege, Ottoman forces under Mehmed II captured Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire. The defenders were vastly outnumbered: a small Byzantine-Latin garrison, aided by volunteers such as Giovanni Giustiniani, faced an Ottoman army supported by heavy artillery. The most famous guns—often linked to the founder Orban—did not magically “blow up” the walls in one shot, but they battered masonry day after day, forcing constant repairs with rubble, timber, and earth

799K views · 12K reactions | In 1462, Sultan Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, marched with over 150,000 Ottoman soldiers into Wallachia. But Vlad the Impaler was waiting. Outnumbered and outmatched, he used terror itself as a weapon - turning the land into a nightmare that shook even the mighty Ottoman Empire. This is the story of Vlad vs. Mehmed, the clash that defined Wallachia’s fate. #ottomanempire #vladtheimpaler #mehmedii #wallachia #romania | Pyramid Secrets | Facebook