Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

[breathing heavily]

Take the sultan!

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

[dramatic music plays]

[Gürkan] The conquest of Constantinople

I have killed hundreds in this siege.

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

as well as soldiers.

Then send them!

and he reminds the Byzantines in particular,

Fire the bombards.

[Giustiniani groaning]

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

His morale is shot and this is the moment really,

an ominous sight shakes both sides.

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

[cannon fire in distance]

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

Let us now fulfill our destiny.

I am going to God, my friend.

The defenders were tired after that,

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

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

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

[narrator] Every empire has a beginning.

putting them in what will soon become a killing field.

Thank you for all your lessons, teacher.

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

[bells tolling]

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

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