The final assault
1453 · Event
Three waves break on the walls before dawn; the third, by Doukas's account, finds a small sally-port left open and a standard raised on the ramparts, and panic does the rest. Constantine XI dies sword in hand somewhere in the rout, his body never certainly found. By afternoon Mehmed rides to Hagia Sophia; Rome, after 1,500 years, is finished.
On these timelines: Fall of Constantinople, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master
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