The chain across the Golden Horn
1453 · Event
As the Ottoman army arrives, the defenders stretch a great iron boom across the mouth of the Golden Horn, sealing the city's harbour to the sultan's fleet. It holds for weeks and denies Mehmed the sea walls — until he finds a way around it that no one imagines possible.
On these timelines: Fall of Constantinople, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master
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