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as well as soldiers.

[narrator] Every empire has a beginning.

[breathing heavily]

Fire the bombards.

Let us now fulfill our destiny.

for the last... 1700 years tried and failed.

And I think it's this moment where he...

The defenders were tired after that,

[cannon fire in distance]

as the Janissaries close in on the St. Romanus gate.

I'm gonna... I'm gonna lead them and die with them."

an ominous sight shakes both sides.

His morale is shot and this is the moment really,

I need them to defend the walls along the Golden Horn.

There are all sorts of accounts as to how this happened, what happened.

I am going to God, my friend.

[dramatic music plays]

putting them in what will soon become a killing field.

[Gürkan] The conquest of Constantinople

Thank you for all your lessons, teacher.

Take the sultan!

And he plunges into where the battle is thickest...

-[Constantine] Where are you taking him? -He's hurt. He needs to see the surgeon.

and it doesn't come and it doesn't come.

Then send them!

to being the dominant force in world politics for 300 years.

I have killed hundreds in this siege.

[bells tolling]

and he reminds the Byzantines in particular,

[Giustiniani groaning]

There were guys from both faiths and from all over the world